Package: gawk
Version: 1:3.1.5.dfsg-4

This following issue was reported on the bug-gnu-utils mailing list, against version gawk 3.1.5:

See
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2005-12/msg00060.html

$ gawk -v BINMODE=3 'BEGIN { print BINMODE }'
gawk: warning: BINMODE: arbitrary string value treated as "rw"
3


The issue is also reported in Ubuntu at https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/gawk/+bug/44690 and a patch (in dpatch format) by Aharon Robbins is available at http://librarian.launchpad.net/2621837/22_fix_binmode.dpatch

Thanks,
Gary.


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