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Bug 55084

Summary:	strings does not return anything when run on binaries
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Raw Hide	Reporter:	Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero>
Component:	binutils	Assignee:	Jakub Jelinek <jakub>
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Description Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2001-10-25 10:12:32 UTC

Description of Problem:
Summary says it all.
strings /etc/passwd displays the whole file, as expected.
strings /bin/ls or strings /lib/libc.so.6 don't display anything.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
binutils-2.11.92.0.7


How Reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. rpm -Uvh binutils-2.11.92.0.7-1.i386.rpm
2. strings /lib/libc.so.6

Actual Results:
nothing

Expected Results:
strings from /lib/libc.so.6

Additional Information:
This breaks various configure scripts.

Worked in 2.11.90.0.8-9

Comment 1 Jakub Jelinek 2001-10-25 17:13:09 UTC

Yeah, I've screwed it up.
Testing fix now...

Comment 2 Jakub Jelinek 2001-11-12 14:07:22 UTC

Should be fixed in 2.11.92.0.7-2.