From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040924 Firefox/0.10 Description of problem: If you are not on the same filesystem, the rename after processing the file will fail, leaving the output in the temp file, and the original file deleted. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.2-21 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. change to somewhere on a filesystem different from /tmp (but to which you have write access) 2. touch /tmp/filename 3. unix2dos /tmp/filename Actual Results: [dws@stour dws]$ unix2dos /tmp/BAZ unix2dos: converting file /tmp/BAZ to DOS format ... unix2dos: problems renaming './u2dtmpqOAaGp' to '/tmp/BAZ' output file remains in './u2dtmpqOAaGp' unix2dos: problems converting file /tmp/BAZ [dws@stour dws]$ ls -l /tmp/BAZ ls: /tmp/BAZ: No such file or directory Expected Results: [dws@stour dws]$ unix2dos /tmp/BAZ unix2dos: converting file /tmp/BAZ to DOS format ... Additional info:
Fixed in Fedora Core 3 and newer. Setting status to "CURRENTRELEASE"