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Description of problem: The 'file' command in Rawhide gives a strange output for a file of all zeroes: $ truncate -s 100M /tmp/test $ file /tmp/test /tmp/test: DOS-executable ( Or in case you think sparseness is a problem: $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/test bs=1M count=100 100+0 records in 100+0 records out 104857600 bytes (105 MB) copied, 0.258742 s, 405 MB/s $ file /tmp/test /tmp/test: DOS-executable ( Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): file-5.07-1.fc16.x86_64 How reproducible: 100% Note this is a regression over the previous version I was using from Fedora 15, which printed "data". Steps to Reproduce: 1. See above. 2. 3. Actual results: DOS-executable ( Expected results: Something else, eg. the old "data" string. Additional info:
Submitted upstream bug report: http://bugs.gw.com/view.php?id=125
Thanks for submitting it upstream. It's regression in new version caused by new DOS device driver pattern, which is broken. I'm not sure how it was supposed to work anyway...
file-5.07-2.fc15 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 15. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/file-5.07-2.fc15
file-5.07-2.fc15 has been pushed to the Fedora 15 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
*** Bug 707374 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***