Re: Possible bug in ls from coreutils-6.5

[Bob Proulx]

Bob McCracken wrote:
> After building and installing coreutils-6.5 (running linux
> 2.6.18.2), I unpacked the source for abiword-2.4.6 and got a
> Segmentation Fault when I tried to "ls" the directory in which I had
> unpacked it. I tried this several times, both in the directory and
> outside it, and from other virtual terminals, and always got the seg
> fault. I don't know what could cause this, but I had a backed-up
> copy of "ls" from 6.4 and was able to list that directory with it
> without error, and so I copied it back over the 6.5 version.

Thanks for the report.  Unfortunately the latest release had a nasty
bug sneak into it through library code that is shared.  I think your
bug is the same as this one:

  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2006-11/msg00153.html

Using the previous 6.4, as you are doing, is a good workaround for the
moment.

Bob