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Bug 189215

Summary: ncompress does not display statistics when compressing 0 length files
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: David Kovalsky <dkovalsk>
Component: ncompressAssignee: Peter Vrabec <pvrabec>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Ben Levenson <benl>
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Version: 4.0CC: benl, tao
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Fixed In Version: RHSA-2006-0663 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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this patch fix both #189215 and #1892156 none

Description David Kovalsky 2006-04-18 13:34:52 UTC 
Description of problem:
ncompress does not display statistics and compression results in verbose mode
when operating on 0 length files, actually it only prints file name but nothing else

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
ncompress-4.2.4-40
ncompress-4.2.4-41.rhel4

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
$ touch foo
$ compress -v foo


  
Actual results:
foo:
# (without \n)

Expected results:
foo: No compression -- foo unchanged

Additional info:
$ echo jkl>bar
$ compress -v bar
bar: No compression -- bar unchanged

$ touch foo
$ compress -v foo
foo:
# (without \n)

works fine with the -f parameter
$ touch foo
$ compres -fv foo
foo:  -- replaced with foo.Z Compression: 100.00%
Comment 1 Peter Vrabec 2006-04-21 11:43:20 UTC 
Created attachment 128078 [details]
this patch fix both #189215 and #1892156
Comment 10 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-09-12 16:47:15 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/RHSA-2006-0663.html