Shell: hexdump command weirdness in fileio

Joel Sherrill joel.sherrill at OARcorp.com
Wed Apr 16 23:03:05 UTC 2014


On 4/16/2014 5:36 PM, Chris Johns wrote:
> On 17/04/2014 7:31 am, Joel Sherrill wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I saw this during the class in Munich but forgot to report it.
>>
>> RTEMS SHELL (Ver.1.0-FRC):/dev/foobar. Apr 14 2014. 'help' to list commands.
>> [/] # hexdump /etc/passwd
>> [/] #
>>
>> Notice that the hexdump command didn't display anything from the file.
>>
>> Did I do something wrong? Or is something broken?
>>
> Nothing wrong. I seem to remember a bug in this code somewhere. I need 
> to take a look.
I took a shot at stepping into it and it jumps around like mad. Looks
like it calls memset
and returns which makes no sense at all. :(
> Chris
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