Re: sanity failure

[Derek Robert Price]

Larry Jones wrote:

> Derek Robert Price writes:
>  
>
> > Though it wouldn't hurt to figure out which program is failing and why 
> > (again, I suspect expr) so that I can add a test at the beginning of 
> > sanity.sh and print a warning message about the broken program for others.
> >    
>
> It's almost certainly expr that's broken, but good luck testing for it. 
> I've had similar problems on AIX but I haven't been able to characterize
> the failure enough to test for it.  My guess is that it's caused by an
> unchecked buffer overflow in expr.
>  

Ah.  I was hoping for something easy like an allergy to `$' or long 
lines.  It might still be interesting to see the output of 
debug_check_log on his system, assuming debug_check_log uses the same 
expr as sanity.sh.

Derek

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