From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 05:42:46 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (find_field): Don't count trailing newline to be
X-Git-Tag: TEXTUTILS-2_0_15~337
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb/index.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=81cb73491084dd9b9cd8acaedcd099a2a29f6be6;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

(find_field): Don't count trailing newline to be
part of the field.  This disagrees with POSIX.2, but it's
gotta be a bug in the standard.  An interpretations request
has been submitted to PASC.
---

diff --git a/src/uniq.c b/src/uniq.c
index f46bdaa52c..42f33a2064 100644
--- a/src/uniq.c
+++ b/src/uniq.c
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ find_field (const struct linebuffer *line)
 {
   register int count;
   register char *lp = line->buffer;
-  register size_t size = line->length;
+  register size_t size = line->length - 1;
   register size_t i = 0;
 
   for (count = 0; count < skip_fields && i < size; count++)