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Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2012 12:21:25 +0200
From: Roland Schwingel <roland AT onevision DOT com>
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Subject: 1.7.12 breaks stdout of upx packed executables
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Hi...

Just updated to 1.7.12 and found one regression. If you have upx packed 
executables (upx from cygwin distribution) the stdout of the packed 
executable is broken now.

Try the following from mintty:
upx --best /usr/bin/tar.exe -o /tmp/tar.exe
/tmp/tar.exe

You will notice that when you invoke the compressed /tmp/tar.exe that no 
output will be sent to the mintty console, while it works if you just 
invoke /usr/bin/tar.exe

It works just fine with 1.7.11. When you decompress the executable using 
upx -d it will start to work again.

This is not specific to tar, but to any exe I have seen right now.

Strange,

Roland

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