>Number: 6492
>Category: user
>Synopsis: hexdump -s -n is broken
>Confidential: yes
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: unknown
>Arrival-Date: Mon Oct 18 21:20:01 GMT 2010
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
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>Organization:
>Environment:
System : OpenBSD 4.8
Details : OpenBSD 4.8-current (GENERIC.MP) #4: Sun Oct 3 12:18:28
CEST 2010
[email protected]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC.MP
Architecture: OpenBSD.i386
Machine : i386
>Description:
The skip and length parameter of hexdump doesn't work as expected since
following change:
Changes by: [email protected] 2010/10/12 11:23:21
Modified files:
usr.bin/hexdump: display.c hexdump.c hexdump.h
Looks like setvbuf is called after doing getchar in
doskip. According to setvbuf(3) that might lead to discarded
input.
>How-To-Repeat:
$ echo 12345678 | hexdump -s 2 -n 2
0000002
Expected output:
$ echo 12345678 | hexdump -s 2 -n 2
0000002 3433
0000004
>Fix:
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