Bug in cut

[Denys Vlasenko]

On Tuesday 20 November 2007 22:12, Richard Hoyle wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There seems to be a bug in the cut command.  Try this in _install/bin
>
> ./echo fred | ./cut -b1 | ./cat -
>
> This patch seems to fix the problem.
>
> --- cut.c.org   2007-11-10 01:40:51.000000000 +0000
> +++ cut.c       2007-11-21 05:57:03.000000000 +0000
> @@ -284,5 +284,5 @@
>         }
>         if (ENABLE_FEATURE_CLEAN_UP)
>                 free(cut_lists);
> -       return EXIT_SUCCESS;
> +    fflush_stdout_and_exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
>  }
>
> Thanks for BusyBox and making it GPL'd software.
>
> All the best,

Please specify your version of busybox and attach your .config.
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