Bug 113207

Summary:	file gives no error message if you try to look at a file you don't have permissions to read
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Telsa Gwynne <hobbit>
Component:	file	Assignee:	Jeff Johnson <jbj>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Mike McLean <mikem>
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Description Telsa Gwynne 2004-01-09 18:23:04 UTC

[hobbit@aloss hobbit]$ rpm -q file
file-4.02-2
[hobbit@aloss hobbit]$ file /etc/sysconfig/rhn
/etc/sysconfig/rhn: directory
[hobbit@aloss hobbit]$ file /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date
/etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date:
[hobbit@aloss hobbit]$ ls -l /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date
-rw-------    1 root     root         3436 Rha  3 18:00
/etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date
[hobbit@aloss hobbit]$ LANG="C" file /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date
/etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date:

(That last just to check it wasn't some locale thing)

There is no "regular file: no read permission" error coming up
as appears on Debian's file command (file-4.06). 

An error message of some sort would be nice, even if it is is just
permission denied.
If it's a GNU error (and fix), perhaps upgrading to that?

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2004-01-09 21:19:16 UTC

Reproduced with file-4.06 in fc2.

Comment 2 Jeff Johnson 2004-01-20 01:20:57 UTC

Fixed in file-4.07-1. Thanks for noticing.