Bug 247170 - Bug in displaying error message while using -u option
Summary: Bug in displaying error message while using -u option
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: strace
Version: 7
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
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Assignee: Roland McGrath
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: 229644 231966
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-07-05 19:36 UTC by Roland McGrath
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:12 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

Fixed In Version: 4.5.16-1.fc7
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2007-08-06 17:59:44 UTC
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Description Roland McGrath 2007-07-05 19:36:30 UTC 
when we use a wrong username in -u option of strace,we get the following
error.
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strace -u <non existing user name> echo hi
strace: cannot find user `(null)'

Instead of "null", we shld see wrong username.
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Comment 1 Roland McGrath 2007-07-05 19:37:22 UTC 
fixed upstream
Comment 2 Jan Kratochvil 2007-08-03 14:33:33 UTC 
Fixed in Rawhide strace-4.5.16-1.fc8:
* Fri Aug  3 2007 Roland McGrath <roland> - 4.5.16-1
- fix -u error message (#247170)

and upstream:

2007-07-05  Roland McGrath  <roland>

        * strace.c (main): Fix error message for unfound -u user.
        From Srinivasa Ds <srinivasa.com>.
        Fixes RH#247170.
Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2007-08-06 17:59:25 UTC 
strace-4.5.16-1.fc7 has been pushed to the Fedora 7 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
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