Subject: shred 8.28 renames files only once
From: pengu1n <[email-masked]>
To: "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 19:02:21 -0400
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Hello.

[coreutils 8.27]

$ touch test
$ shred -vu test

shred: test: removing
shred: test: renamed to 0000
shred: 0000: renamed to 000
shred: 000: renamed to 00
shred: 00: renamed to 0
shred: test: removed

[coreutils 8.28]

$ touch test
$ shred -vu test

shred: test: removing
shred: test: renamed to 0000
shred: test: removed

Is it a bug or is it an intentional change? Has commit 2ae1460dad89a791ebf770f74217596b6642cead something to do with this?

Thank you.