I've tested bcwipe on various files, dirs and block devices (loop, but shouldn't matter). Everything's fine. Portage 2.0.53_rc3 (default-linux/ppc/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r1, 2.6.14-rc3-20051004 ppc) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.14-rc3-20051004 ppc 7455, altivec supported Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre8 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.13 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ppc ~ppc" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=7400 -mtune=G4 -maltivec -mabi=altivec -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe" CHOST="powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /etc/apache2/httpd.conf /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=7400 -mtune=G4 -maltivec -mabi=altivec -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig candy ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/gentoo/ http://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/ http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo" LANG="en_US.ISO-8859-1" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/local/portage" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage_overlay" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="ppc X aac aalib alsa altivec apache2 bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cscope cups curl directfb dvd emboss esd fbcon flac gd gdbm ggi gif gpm gtk gtk2 imagemagick imlib ipv6 jpeg libwww mad mbox mikmod motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pdflib perl pic plotutils png python readline samba slang spell ssl tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode vorbis xine xinerama xml2 xmms xv zlib video_cards_radeon userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
In CVS, thanks.
