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Re: Limit the spew of error messages resulting from "wc /bin/sh"
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: Limit the spew of error messages resulting from "wc /bin/sh" |
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Tue, 22 May 2007 09:36:02 -0700 |
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"James Youngman" <address@hidden> writes:
> 2007-05-22 James Youngman <address@hidden>
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> * src/wc.c (wc): Limit the number of messages about invalid
> multibyte sequences to error_limit (currently 5).
Hmmm, why does "wc" output _any_ such messages? The standard doesn't
require them and they seem like a waste of time. An invalid byte
should not count as part of a character or a word, but should count as
a byte and as part of a line.