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Re: 1.7.12 breaks stdout of upx packed executables
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2012 13:11:43 +0200
- Subject: Re: 1.7.12 breaks stdout of upx packed executables
- References: <4F7C20A5.80200@onevision.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Apr 4 12:21, Roland Schwingel wrote:
> 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
Thanks for the report. It's not so much breaking stdout, but rather
that the executable is not recognized as Cygwin executable due to a dumb
mistake I made when computing the size of a section. Fixed in CVS.
Corinna
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