Hi all,

I'm seeing a problem where nbsed built (by pkgsrc/bootstrap) on
Solaris seems unable to handle really long lines in files, after 1024
chars it adds an extra zero char.

Has anyone else seen this?

"1" below is a file with a single line, 2298 chars long:

$ /bin/sed 's/notinthefile/foo/g' < 1 > 2
$ diff 1 2
$ nbsed 's/notinthefile/foo/g' < 1 > 2
$ diff 1 2
Binary files 1 and 2 differ
$ ll 1 2
-rw-rw-r--   1 qurbboq  users       2298 Sep  8 16:36 1
-rw-rw-r--   1 qurbboq  users       2300 Sep  8 16:37 2

nbsed has added one zero char at offset 1024 and one more at offset 2048.

I get this on two different machines, running Solaris 2.8 and 2.9.

This is a bit troublesome since it is the bootstrap script that
decides to use nbsed because the Solaris sed is useless... :)

Best regards,
     -- Urban