GNU bug report logs - #17149
shred - tape data

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Rupert Russell <Rupert.Russell <at> ilmor.co.uk>

Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 15:45:04 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #70 received at 17149 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: "17149 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <17149 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#17149: shred - tape data
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2014 05:40:50 +0100

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]
On 04/03/2014 05:44 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> I found a glitch in that previous patch, and installed the attached fixup.

Actually we shouldn't be doing a data pass for empty files at all.
The original version of this utility didn't do that, nor do
I see a reason for doing that. So for correctness/consistency reasons,
I'm applying the attached.

thanks,
Pádraig.

[shred-no-empty.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]
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