Comment 5 for bug 279598

I am sorry. The day-to-day "earn money" piece took a toll on my available time to keep on here. By an amazing coincidence this was brought up at the upstream mailing list just a few days ago (see http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-01/msg00123.html), and it had a bit of movement today.

Previously we had http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2008-02/msg00318.html already pointing the current issue.

Anyway: I am going ahead and marking this as triaged, and will add in here the final position.