Bug 113207 - file gives no error message if you try to look at a file you don't have permissions to read
Summary: file gives no error message if you try to look at a file you don't have permi...
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: file
Version: 1
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Jeff Johnson
QA Contact: Mike McLean
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-01-09 18:23 UTC by Telsa Gwynne
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:10 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2004-01-20 01:20:57 UTC
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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.
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