awk bug? (+ small question about nc and shell size)

[Denys Vlasenko]

On Saturday 24 January 2009 21:56, Peter Renzland wrote:
> [Busybox v1.12.3, Netfilter v1.3.7, Tomato 1.23, Linux 2.4.20,  
> embedded in a WRT54GL router]
> 
> === awk ===
> 
> I wonder whether the following awk bug is more widespread than my my  
> particular implementation:
> 
> The following program:
> 
> awk '
>    BEGIN {
> 	print "NF:" NF ":"
> 	print "$0:" $0 ":"
> 	print "$1:" $1 ":"
> 	print "$2:" $2 ":"
>    }
> '
> 
> prints:
> 
> NF:1:
> $0:0:
> $1:0:
> $2::
> 
> instead of:
> 
> NF:0:
> $0::
> $1::
> $2::

Try attached patch.


> === nc and shell size ===
> 
> I wonder if adding "-l" to the capability of nc would increase the  
> executable size by much.

?!! nc already has -l option supported.

> Similarly with adding job control to the shell.

Same comment applies here.
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vda
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