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| author | Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> | 2017-06-23 10:22:36 +0100 |
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| committer | Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> | 2017-06-23 10:24:39 +0100 |
| commit | 0e158763b0c5671cd40cdd2faee48d6659489ddd (patch) | |
| tree | df881f9e6ae267f58247c5aec5fe2820993ccb95 | |
| parent | 0dd5cbc56307afaf6a366a8e78ef25cf9cefe514 (diff) | |
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Make the strings utility reject directories.
PR binutils/21659
* strings.c (strings_file): Warn about attempts to run strings on
a directory.
| -rw-r--r-- | binutils/ChangeLog | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | binutils/strings.c | 5 |
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/binutils/ChangeLog b/binutils/ChangeLog index 484632a..b4672fa 100644 --- a/binutils/ChangeLog +++ b/binutils/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +2017-06-23 Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> + + PR binutils/21659 + * strings.c (strings_file): Warn about attempts to run strings on + a directory. + 2017-06-22 H.J. Lu <hongjiu.lu@intel.com> * readelf.c (decode_x86_feature): Decode diff --git a/binutils/strings.c b/binutils/strings.c index 13e2619..77d89eb 100644 --- a/binutils/strings.c +++ b/binutils/strings.c @@ -446,6 +446,11 @@ strings_file (char *file) file, strerror (errno)); return FALSE; } + else if (S_ISDIR (st.st_mode)) + { + non_fatal (_("Warning: '%s' is a directory"), file); + return FALSE; + } /* If we weren't told to scan the whole file, try to open it as an object file and only look at |