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



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