dd segfaults in some locales

[Fredrik Arnerup]

Binary package hint: coreutils

dd (coreutils 5.93-5) segfaults after copying more than one byte if not using the "C" locale:

$ LC_ALL=C dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=1024 count=16
16+0 records in
16+0 records out
16384 bytes (16 kB) copied, 3.5e-05 seconds, 468 MB/s

$ LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=1024 count=16
16+0 records in
16+0 records out
Segmentation fault

It might have something to do with UTF-8

It seems to do the job before it segfaults, though

[Fredrik Arnerup (fredrik-arnerup)]

Correction:
It only segfaults for me if I combine LC_ALL="??_??.UTF-8" with LANGUAGE=sv.

$ LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=sv dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=1 count=2
2+0 records in
2+0 records out
Segmentation fault

$ LC_ALL=C LANGUAGE=sv dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=1 count=2 2+0 records in
2+0 records out
2 bytes (2 B) copied, 2.3e-05 seconds, 87.0 kB/s

$ LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=en dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=1 count=2
2+0 records in
2+0 records out
2 bytes (2 B) copied, 2.6e-05 seconds, 76.9 kB/s

Copying a single byte also works:

$ LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=sv dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=1 count=1
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
1 byte (1 B) kopierad, 2.6e-05 sekunder, 38.5 kB/s

[Laurent Bigonville (bigon)]

What version do you use?

[Fredrik Arnerup (fredrik-arnerup)]

coreutils 5.93-5 (Ubuntu 6.06 LTS x86)

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