Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 17:12:02 +0200 (CEST) From: oliver.fromme@heim3.tu-clausthal.de To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: bin/13453: Strange /usr/bin/expand limit (fix included) Message-ID: <199908291512.RAA06780@dao-lin-hay.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
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>Number: 13453
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: Strange /usr/bin/expand limit (fix included)
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Sun Aug 29 08:20:01 PDT 1999
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Oliver Fromme
>Release: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i386
>Organization:
Clausthal University of Technology, Computing Center
>Environment:
All versions of FreeBSD up to 4.0-current.
>Description:
/usr/bin/expand does not allow tab stops > 256 characters.
There's no reason for such an arbitrary limit.
>How-To-Repeat:
printf '\t' | expand -3000
>Fix:
--- expand.c.old Sun Dec 6 23:58:23 1998
+++ expand.c Sun Aug 29 17:08:15 1999
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@
i = 0;
while (*cp >= '0' && *cp <= '9')
i = i * 10 + *cp++ - '0';
- if (i <= 0 || i > 256) {
+ if (i <= 0) {
bad:
fprintf(stderr, "Bad tab stop spec\n");
exit(1);
>Release-Note:
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