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Is 'cat foo|strings' immune to the problems of libbfd?

• ams6110 12y ago
  I wouldn't think so. The data being processed are the same.
  • roghummal 12y ago
    I thought that reading from stdin might bypass the file type analysis.
    • ANTSANTS 12y ago
      Haven't checked but I'm pretty sure the binutils just look for "magic numbers" (ie are the first four bytes "0x7F 'E' 'L' 'F'") and don't look at any filesystem information.
  • mistaken 12y ago
    Using cat and piping it to string actually works without crashing. It seems that libbfd style parsing is disabled on stdin.
    • deleted 12y ago
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