Re: CVS commit: src/usr.bin/comm

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

As written on current-users@, this breaks comm(1) for trivial use cases
like:
        printf "a" > test1
        printf "a\n" > test2
        comm test1 test2

Joerg

On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 03:56:38AM +0000, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
> Module Name:  src
> Committed By: darcy
> Date:         Sat Nov 28 03:56:38 UTC 2009
> 
> Modified Files:
>       src/usr.bin/comm: comm.c
> 
> Log Message:
> Don't include newlines when comparing to prevent errors when lines have
> characters that sort lower such as tabs.
> 
> This is a temporary fix to allow pullups to existing, supported versions
> of NetBSD.  I will follow up with a version for current using the new
> getline function.
> 
> 
> To generate a diff of this commit:
> cvs rdiff -u -r1.17 -r1.18 src/usr.bin/comm/comm.c
> 
> Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the
> copyright notices on the relevant files.