On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:39:48 +0100 Chris Ridd wrote:
> On 20 Oct 2008, at 14:08, Glenn Fowler wrote:
> > can you truss the bad machine to see the tr read and write calls
> It isn't very illuminating I'm afraid:
it does implicate tr
it looks like it gets the literal args 'A' '\301'
it reads " A\n" and writes " A\n"
> 19936: execve("/usr/bin/tr", 0x080675A8, 0x08067658) argc = 3
> 19936: argv: tr A \301
> 19936: read(0, " A\n", 5120) = 2
> 19936: read(0, 0x08169B14, 5120) = 0
> 19936: write(1, " A\n", 2) = 2
what are your locale env var settings { LANG LC_* } ?
