| Summary: | sys-apps/file 4.20 - problems processing a file containing only a large number of LFs | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Icebird2000 <icebird2000> |
| Component: | [OLD] Core system | Assignee: | Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | High | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| URL: | http://mx.gw.com/pipermail/file/2007/000172.html | ||
| Whiteboard: | |||
| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
| Attachments: | Fix for DOS | ||
Created attachment 115460 [details, diff]
Fix for DOS
added 4.20-r1 |
file-4.20 has problems processing a file containing only a large number of line feed characters Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. perl -e 'for (1..2700) {print "\n" x 10}' >0.lis 2. time file 0.lis Actual Results: can fix with the attached patch