glibc testing problem

David Miller davem@davemloft.net
Wed Nov 28 22:46:00 GMT 2012


From: "Steve Ellcey " <sellcey@mips.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 13:49:57 -0800

> There are two tabs between '1.23' and '1,23 EUR'.  Most shells (bash, ksh)
> seem to treat two tabs the same as one and have no problems.  But on
> my systems (debian and ubuntu) /bin/sh is a link to dash and dash does not
> treat two tabs like one.

This is a bug in dash and more recent versions of dash have this bug
fixed.

In fact it has been fixed for more than a year.



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