On 2010-11-22 17:24 +0100, Friedrich Delgado wrote: > Package: emacs > Version: 23.2+1-4 > Severity: normal > > How to reproduce: > > In the shell: > > dd if=/dev/urandom of=orig bs=1024 count=1 > cp orig copy > cmp -l orig copy; echo $? > > In emacs: > open copy with hexl-find-file > go 1 line down, press C-M-x for insert-hex > enter any 2 digit hex number > save the file > > Back in the shell: > cmp -l orig copy|less > > there will be a whole lot of apparently random differences, not just > the changed byte.
I cannot reproduce this. > Maybe related: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=547566 Which points to the upstream bug http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=5313, and that was supposedly fixed long ago. Are you sure that you're using Emacs 23.2? Regards, Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]

