bin/85099: POSIX violation in split(1)

[Toby Peterson]

>Number:         85099
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       POSIX violation in split(1)
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Aug 18 22:30:16 GMT 2005
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Toby Peterson
>Release:        HEAD
>Organization:
Apple Computer, Inc.
>Environment:
n/a
>Description:
split(1) violates the POSIX specification, in that it will use prefixes x-z by default. POSIX only allows x.      
>How-To-Repeat:
Run split, observe that i'll create 3 times more files than POSIX allows.
>Fix:
Index: split.1
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/usr.bin/split/split.1,v
retrieving revision 1.15
diff -u -r1.15 split.1
--- split.1     17 Jan 2005 07:44:29 -0000      1.15
+++ split.1     18 Aug 2005 22:25:59 -0000
@@ -111,8 +111,8 @@
 If the
 .Ar name
 argument is not specified, the file is split into lexically ordered
-files named with prefixes in the range of
-.Dq Li x-z
+files named with the prefix
+.Dq Li x
 and with suffixes as above.
 .Sh ENVIRONMENT
 The
@@ -139,12 +139,10 @@
 command appeared in
 .At v3 .
 .Sh BUGS
-For historical reasons, if you specify
-.Ar name ,
+For historical reasons,
 .Nm
 can only create 676 separate
 files.
-The default naming convention allows 2028 separate files.
 The
 .Fl a
 option can be used to work around this limitation.
Index: split.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/usr.bin/split/split.c,v
retrieving revision 1.15
diff -u -r1.15 split.c
--- split.c     11 Jul 2004 14:44:23 -0000      1.15
+++ split.c     18 Aug 2005 22:25:59 -0000
@@ -319,15 +319,8 @@
                if ((maxfiles *= 26) <= 0)
                        errx(EX_USAGE, "suffix is too long (max %ld)", i);
 
-       /*
-        * Hack to increase max files; original code wandered through
-        * magic characters.
-        */
        if (fnum == maxfiles) {
-               if (!defname || fname[0] == 'z')
-                       errx(EX_DATAERR, "too many files");
-               ++fname[0];
-               fnum = 0;
+               errx(EX_DATAERR, "too many files");
        }
 
        /* Generate suffix of sufflen letters */
      
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