Re: fileutils-4.0: wrong arg count in error() call in copy_internal()

[Jim Meyering]

address@hidden (Per Cederqvist) wrote:
| The format string supplied to error() in the code below has three "%s"
| formats, but only receives two arguments.  This triggered a core dump
| under Solaris 7.
...
| I expected an error message, not half an error message and a core
| dump.  (Actually, the "repeat by" is a simplification of what I did
| type.  I didn't expect an error message, but I did deserve one for
| giving such a stupid command.  Maybe I even deserved to get a core
| dump. :-)

:-)
Thanks for the report.
That's fixed in the latest test release.
  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/fetish/