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Re: 1.7.12 breaks stdout of upx packed executables


On Apr  4 12:21, Roland Schwingel wrote:
> Hi...
> 
> Just updated to 1.7.12 and found one regression. If you have upx
> packed executables (upx from cygwin distribution) the stdout of the
> packed executable is broken now.
> 
> Try the following from mintty:
> upx --best /usr/bin/tar.exe -o /tmp/tar.exe
> /tmp/tar.exe
> 
> You will notice that when you invoke the compressed /tmp/tar.exe
> that no output will be sent to the mintty console, while it works if
> you just invoke /usr/bin/tar.exe

Thanks for the report.  It's not so much breaking stdout, but rather
that the executable is not recognized as Cygwin executable due to a dumb
mistake I made when computing the size of a section.  Fixed in CVS.


Corinna

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