Bug 80569 – sys-apps/sed-4.1.2 core dumps

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Aaron Walker (RETIRED) 2005-02-03 04:49:59 UTC]

test case - one of ciaranm's regexes from the latest fluxbox-styles-fluxmod:

$ tar xvjpf fluxbox-styles-fluxmod-20050128.tar.bz2
$ cd fluxbox-styles-fluxmod-20050128
$ find . -name '*.cfg' -exec sed -i "{}" -e 's-^\(rootcommand\)-!!! \1-i' \;

produces the attached output on two of my ~x86 systems.  sed-4.0.9 works fine.

[Comment 1 Aaron Walker (RETIRED) 2005-02-03 04:51:01 UTC]

Created attachment 50259 [details]
sed-core-dumps.txt

[Comment 2 Ciaran McCreesh 2005-02-03 12:57:00 UTC]

Simpler test case

ciaranm@snowdrop ramdisk 0 0.54 $ echo -e "xxxxxxxx yyy\nzzzzz" > test
ciaranm@snowdrop ramdisk 0 0.42 $ sed -i test -e 's-^\(xxxxxxxx\)-!!! \1-i'
Segmentation fault

[Comment 3 Ciaran McCreesh 2005-02-03 12:58:29 UTC]

ka0ttic -- utf-8 locale perchance? unset LANG makes it vanish for me

[Comment 4 Aaron Walker (RETIRED) 2005-02-04 06:03:50 UTC]

Yes, LANG is en_US.utf8.
I still get it after unset LANG, however.

[Comment 5 SpanKY 2005-02-19 10:15:28 UTC]

could you guys give sed-4.1.4 a run ?

[Comment 6 Aaron Walker (RETIRED) 2005-02-19 11:17:08 UTC]

4.1.4 works for me.

[Comment 7 SpanKY 2005-02-19 11:35:53 UTC]

wh0rd