Bug 168617

Summary: file(1) reports substring "SVR4-style" 16 times
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: Alexey Roytman <alexey>
Component: fileAssignee: Radek Vokál <rvokal>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Mike McLean <mikem>
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Hardware: i386   
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Fixed In Version: RHBA-2006-0012 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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first 512000 bytes from specific core file from Solaris 8 SPARC none

Description Alexey Roytman 2005-09-18 05:56:11 UTC 
Description of problem:

On a core file from Solaris 8 SPARC (maybe, specific core file) the command:
  file core-sun4u-begin
reports:
  core-sun4u-begin: ELF 32-bit MSB core file, SPARC, version 1 (SYSV),
SVR4-style, from 'my-application', SVR4-style, SVR4-style, SVR4-style,
SVR4-style, SVR4-style, SVR4-style, SVR4-style, SVR4-style, SVR4-style,
SVR4-style, SVR4-style, SVR4-style, SVR4-style, SVR4-style, SVR4-style, SVR4-style


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
file-4.10-2.i386

How reproducible:
Every time.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. get the attached file (first 512000 bytes of a real core)
2. do "file" for the unpacked resulting file
3. see the output
  
Actual results:
- See in description.

Expected results:
- Something more tidy, like:
  core-sun4u-begin: ELF 32-bit MSB core file, SPARC, version 1 (SYSV),
SVR4-style, from 'my-application' 

Additional info:
Comment 1 Alexey Roytman 2005-09-18 05:56:11 UTC 
Created attachment 118941 [details]
first 512000 bytes from specific core file from Solaris 8 SPARC
Comment 2 Alexey Roytman 2005-09-18 06:12:27 UTC 
On RHEL3 (file-3.39-9) and on RHEL2.1 (file-3.39-8.7x), the output is OK.

By the way, I somewhy forgotten to mention that the attached file is gzip'ped.
Comment 3 Radek Vokál 2005-09-19 09:38:51 UTC 
Fixed in Fedora Core - file-4.15-2 and adding on U3 Proposed List.
Comment 9 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-03-07 18:09:15 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-2006-0012.html