Re: GNU cut: double free or corruption

[Philip Rowlands]

On Sun, 20 May 2007, Claudio M. wrote:

>   i was playing with some tool while i got this error from cut:
>
> *** glibc detected *** cut: double free or corruption (top): 0x08050a20 ***
>
> Indeed i used an unusual (useless? -.-) command:
>
>         $ cut -d'/' -f4 /etc/*
>
> I'm using GNU/Linux Debian Etch with cut 5.97 and GNU libc 2.3.6.ds1-13.

I can't reproduce this with the latest coreutils. This is most likely 
the fix:

* Noteworthy changes in release 6.8 (2007-02-24) [not-unstable]

  cut no longer dumps core for usage like "cut -f2- f1 f2" with two or
  more file arguments.  This was due to a double-free bug, introduced
  in coreutils-5.3.0.



Cheers,
Phil