The following reply was made to PR bin/32596; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: christos@zoulas.com (Christos Zoulas)
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,
	netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: bin/32596: last(1): -n flag does'nt work.
Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 10:44:27 -0500

 On Jan 22,  1:20pm, claudio@netcat.it (claudio@netcat.it) wrote:
 -- Subject: bin/32596: last(1): -n flag does'nt work.
 
 | >Number:         32596
 | >Category:       bin
 | >Synopsis:       last(1): -n flag does'nt work.
 | >Confidential:   no
 | >Severity:       non-critical
 | >Priority:       low
 | >Responsible:    bin-bug-people
 | >State:          open
 | >Class:          sw-bug
 | >Submitter-Id:   net
 | >Arrival-Date:   Sun Jan 22 13:20:00 +0000 2006
 | >Originator:     ilfoglionascosto@netcat.it
 | >Release:        NetBSD 3.99.15 (Fri Jan 13 22:16:21 CET 2006)
 | >Organization:
 | >Environment:
 | 	
 | 	
 | System: NetBSD clabsd.org 3.99.15 NetBSD 3.99.15 (CURRENT) #11: Fri Jan 13 22:16:21 CET 2006 claudio@clabsd.org:/usr/obj/sys/arch/i386/compile/CURRENT i386
 | 
 | Architecture: i386
 | Machine: i386
 | >Description:
 | 	Executing last(1) with "-narg" (without space between '-n' and 'arg' 
 | 	it crash (as follow) and create a core dump.
 | 
 | 	$ last -n9 ; ls -l last.core
 | 	Memory fault (core dumped) 
 | 	-rw-------  1 claudio  users  74728 Jan 22 14:14 last.core
 | 
 | 	Using the flash in the "correct" mode these are the results:
 | 
 | 	$ last -n 9 
 | 
 | 	wtmpx begins Tue Jan 17 2006 14:33:22
 | 
 | 	Probably '-n' should be removed in favour of -NUMBER flag.
 | 
 | 
 | >How-To-Repeat:
 |         Run last with "-nflag" .
 | >Fix:
 
 It works, but -# needs to be specified separately as shown in the man
 page. I fixed it so that it does not core-dump.
 
 christos