Hi, I just was hit by this inconv bug on an old system.
for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9; do iconv -f latin1 -t utf8 -o a.txt a.txt ; done; ls -l a.txt --> file is empty. It was "cleaned" by iconv. This must not happen! iconv --version iconv (GNU libc) 2.6.1 It does not happen on newer system: The file does not get deleted, but nevertheless there are strange bus errors: ls -l a.txt; for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9; do iconv -f latin1 -t utf8 -o a.txt a.txt ; done; ls -l a.txt -rw-r----- 1 foo foo 28672 Aug 10 14:44 a.txt Bus error Bus error Bus error Bus error -rw-r----- 1 foo foo 57273 Aug 10 14:44 a.txt The file increase is OK, since the umlauts get converted serveral times. This happened on a directory from XFS filesystem and on a NFS mount, too. iconv --version iconv (GNU libc) 2.9 -- Thomas Guettler, http://www.thomas-guettler.de/ E-Mail: guettli (*) thomas-guettler + de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
