On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 05:35:26PM +0200, Urban Boquist wrote:
> 
> 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... :)

Could you post your test case so we can use it as a regression test
for nbsed?

	Thanks,

	-- Johnny Lam <jlam@NetBSD.org>