Re: Dangerous busybox bug: zcat deletes source file

Tom Oehser <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.tomsrtbt
Message-ID <[email protected]>
The busybox on tomsrtbt is a cvs pull from not too long ago.

But, it does have the bug...

-Tom

On Sat, 18 May 2002, L J Bayuk wrote:

> Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 20:58:03 -0400 (EDT)
> From: L J Bayuk <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [tomsrtbt] Dangerous busybox bug: zcat deletes source file
>
> Watch out for this one: "zcat file.gz" deletes file.gz after cat'ing it.
>
> I think this might be the same as busybox bug #1241
> <http://bugs.busybox.net/db/12/1241.html> "bzcat tries to delete files",
> which they report as fixed in CVS on 26 Apr 2002.  But it's not clear if
> this made it into their latest stable version busybox-0.60.3, released the
> next day.  It isn't listed in the Changelog.  (TomsRTBT-2.0.103 has
> 'busybox 0.61.pre' - is that newer than 0.60.3?)
>
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