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Date:	Sat, 27 Feb 1999 18:33:36 -0500
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From:	"Pierre A. Humblet" <Pierre DOT Humblet AT eurecom DOT fr>
Subject:	bug in strip 2.9.4
Cc:	cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
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strip 2.9.4 in Binutils-2.9 has a bug when stripping a file accessed through a link, on systems that open files by default in text mode (such as cygwin).
The new executable file has an incorrect length.

I believe the bug occurs in the file binutils/objcopy.c, in the function 
simple_copy. The open() and creat() below will open in text mode and the
copy won't be properly executed for binary files.

  fromfd = open (from, O_RDONLY);
  if (fromfd < 0)
    return -1;
  tofd = creat (to, 0777);

Pierre


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