On 20 Oct 2008, at 18:58, Glenn Fowler wrote:
> 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"
I called a little C program (instead of tr) to print out argv[][]
carefully, and argv[1] was the characters "A" and NUL, and argv[2] was
the characters "\", "3", "0", "1" and NUL.
> what are your locale env var settings { LANG LC_* } ?
No LC_* variables are set, but LANG is "en_GB.UTF-8"
So if I unset LANG, tr writes "\301\n".
Cheers,
Chris
