Bug 140720

Summary: "file" crashes intermittently
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: Johan Walles <johan.walles>
Component: fileAssignee: Radek Vokál <rvokal>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Mike McLean <mikem>
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Description Johan Walles 2004-11-24 14:24:40 UTC 
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Description of problem:
Running "file" crashes about once in forty-two or so invocations.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
file-4.10-1

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
while file /tmp/Lima ; do test ; done

Actual Results:  /tmp/Lima: data
/tmp/Lima: data
/tmp/Lima: data
/tmp/Lima: data
/tmp/Lima: data
Segmentation fault


Expected Results:  An infinite list of:
/tmp/Lima: data


Additional info:

Will attach my "Lima" file.  Pls bug me if I forget.

The segfault happens for me withing seconds on an SMP system.
Comment 1 Johan Walles 2004-11-24 14:25:33 UTC 
Created attachment 107389 [details]
Test case
Comment 2 Radek Vokál 2004-11-24 14:32:58 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 131892 ***
Comment 3 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 19:07:16 UTC 
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.