Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 01:50:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/26283: column coredumps on specific input Message-ID: <200104020850.f328o1G25952@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/26283; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg>
To: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: bin/26283: column coredumps on specific input
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 11:38:51 +0300
On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 09:26:21AM +0100, David Malone wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 01:20:03AM -0700, Peter Pentchev wrote:
>
> > Could you try the following patch? It works for me..
> > (As a side point, maybe the tab-size should be configurable.. but that's
> > another battle ;)
>
> I think that this leaves the problem open in some other cases.
> Try:
>
> echo "aaaaaaaaaaaa" | ./column -c 15
>
> maxlength probably needs to be rounded up to the nearest tabstop
> before the test is carried out.
Yes, that was my first idea; I can't really remember what was wrong
with it, why didn't I fix it that way :)
Updated patch follows..
As another side point, column -t (table mode) seems to just ignore
the terminal size.. is that The Right Thing (tm)?
G'luck,
Peter
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Index: src/usr.bin/column/column.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/usr.bin/column/column.c,v
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -u -r1.4 column.c
--- src/usr.bin/column/column.c 1998/12/06 22:58:18 1.4
+++ src/usr.bin/column/column.c 2001/04/02 08:37:21
@@ -52,6 +52,8 @@
#include <string.h>
#include <unistd.h>
+#define TAB 8
+
void c_columnate __P((void));
void *emalloc __P((int));
void input __P((FILE *));
@@ -120,6 +122,7 @@
if (!entries)
exit(eval);
+ maxlength = (maxlength + TAB) & ~(TAB - 1);
if (tflag)
maketbl();
else if (maxlength >= termwidth)
@@ -131,14 +134,12 @@
exit(eval);
}
-#define TAB 8
void
c_columnate()
{
int chcnt, col, cnt, endcol, numcols;
char **lp;
- maxlength = (maxlength + TAB) & ~(TAB - 1);
numcols = termwidth / maxlength;
endcol = maxlength;
for (chcnt = col = 0, lp = list;; ++lp) {
@@ -166,7 +167,6 @@
{
int base, chcnt, cnt, col, endcol, numcols, numrows, row;
- maxlength = (maxlength + TAB) & ~(TAB - 1);
numcols = termwidth / maxlength;
numrows = entries / numcols;
if (entries % numcols)
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