Subject: bug in strip 2.9.4
From: "Pierre A. Humblet" <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 18:33:36 -0500

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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