bin/72173: csplit(1) ver 1.9 wrong behaviour with negative offset and repeat pattern set

[Andrea Forghieri]

>Number:         72173
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       csplit(1) ver 1.9 wrong behaviour with negative offset and repeat pattern set
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
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>Keywords:       
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>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Sep 29 16:40:20 GMT 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Andrea Forghieri
>Release:        5.2.1-RC2
>Organization:
Emmegi S.p.A.
>Environment:
FreeBSD STARGATEII.emmegroup.it 5.2.1-RC2 FreeBSD 5.2.1-RC2 #0: Thu Feb 12 16:28:31 GMT 2004     root at wv1u.btc.adaptec.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
      
>Description:
When a negative offset is given , and repeat pattern is set , every file   but the first and the last , are empty (size = 0 ).       
>How-To-Repeat:
csplit -k "testfile" '/4/-2' {2}

testfile is :

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