Bug 167615

Summary: Doesn't compress zero-sized files even with -f
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: Bastien Nocera <bnocera>
Component: ncompressAssignee: Peter Vrabec <pvrabec>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Ben Levenson <benl>
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Priority: medium    
Version: 4.0CC: tao
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OS: Linux   
Whiteboard: RHEL4U3NAK
Fixed In Version: RHBA-2006-0304 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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ncompress-4.2.4-zerobyteforce.patch (patch by sprabhu@redhat.com) none

Description Bastien Nocera 2005-09-06 10:40:05 UTC 
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #167614 +++

$ touch foo
$ compress -f foo
$ ls -l foo.Z
ls: foo.Z: No such file or directory
$ ls -l foo
0 -rw-r--r--  1 bnocera bnocera 0 Sep  6 11:31 foo

Patch attached below.

-- Additional comment from bnocera on 2005-09-06 06:38 EST --
Created an attachment (id=118490)
ncompress-4.2.4-zerobyteforce.patch (patch from sprabhu)
Comment 1 Bastien Nocera 2005-09-06 10:40:06 UTC 
Created attachment 118491 [details]
ncompress-4.2.4-zerobyteforce.patch (patch by sprabhu)
Comment 9 David Lawrence 2006-04-18 14:41:55 UTC 
PASSES_QA status has been deprecated in favor of VERIFIED. Changing status to
VERIFIED.
Comment 11 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-04-26 21:17:25 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2006-0304.html
Comment 12 Issue Tracker 2007-06-17 04:58:58 UTC 
Internal Status set to 'Resolved'
Status set to: Closed by Tech
Resolution set to: 'RHEL 3.9'
Ticket type set to: 'Problem'

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