On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 5:59 PM, William R. Fraser <wfra...@codewise.org> wrote: > When wc gets its list of files by reading from stdin, using the argument > '--from-files0=-', it reuses the same fstatus struct for each file. > > The problem is that the 'wc' function checks the 'failed' member of this > struct and if it is <=0, it skips doing fstat on the file. The main loop > doesn't reset this value between files, so only the first file has fstat > done on it. > > This can result in the 'wc' function seeking past the end of subsequent > files and then over-reporting their byte counts. > > See the attached patch, which resets the fstatus struct in between files > when reading the file list from stdin.
Thank you for the patch and report for what looks like a bug in code I wrote.
