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Re: Coreutils 5.0.1: spurious error from uniq


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: Re: Coreutils 5.0.1: spurious error from uniq
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 11:17:04 +0200
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Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:

|> Anyway, it's still possible that 'uniq' has a bug, or perhaps
|> 'strcoll', depending on your further investigation.

It looks like strcoll in glibc 2.3 is buggy in not preserving errno when
there is no error.  Setting LC_ALL to de_DE.UTF-8 causes the same failure.
There are many failing file lookups during loading of the locale that seem
to be the problem.

Andreas.

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