Bug 7538 - cpio (cpio-2.4.2-13) closes filedescriptor to early
Summary: cpio (cpio-2.4.2-13) closes filedescriptor to early
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
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Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: cpio
Version: 6.1
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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Assignee: bero
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Reported: 1999-12-03 14:18 UTC by Karsten Hopp
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 1999-12-17 18:52:30 UTC

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Description Karsten Hopp 1999-12-03 14:18:48 UTC 
There's a new bug in release 13 of cpio. If you write an archive with
verbose-mode, the filedescriptor 1 will be closed and after that the
filename should be written to this descriptor.
Try this:
echo /etc/passwd | strace cpio -ocvB >/dev/null

The last few lines will look like this:

==>	close(1)                                = 0
==>	write(1, "/etc/passwd\n", 12)           = -1 EBADF (Bad file
descriptor)



        Karsten
Comment 1 Karsten Hopp 1999-12-04 13:36:59 UTC 
Should be an easy fix.
Shanged priority to 4high4, because several backup-systems rely on
the output of the filename after writing the archive.
(Return value is not valid on every system)

    Karsten
Comment 2 Jeff Johnson 1999-12-17 18:52:59 UTC 
I believe that this problem is fixed by reverting the stdout patch (#3358)
that has been done in cpio-2.4.2-14. Please reopen this bug if I'm wrong.
Comment 3 Karsten Hopp 1999-12-20 10:39:59 UTC 
Ok, it's fixed.

 Thanks
         Karsten
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