Setting BINMODE on command line produces bogus error

Bug #44690 reported by Gary Coady
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gawk (Debian)
Fix Released
Unknown
gawk (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Micah Cowan

Bug Description

See
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2005-12/msg00060.html

$ gawk -v BINMODE=3 'BEGIN { print BINMODE }'
gawk: warning: BINMODE: arbitrary string value treated as "rw"
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Revision history for this message
Gary Coady (garycoady) wrote : Patch to fix issue

Patch from Aharon Robbins on the upstream mailing list.

Micah Cowan (micahcowan)
Changed in gawk:
assignee: nobody → micahcowan
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Matthias Klose (doko) wrote :

fixed in 1:3.1.5.dfsg-4ubuntu1

Changed in gawk:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
Changed in gawk:
status: New → Fix Released
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