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Re: Strangeness when binary executable overwritten by text -- bug or feature?

From Curt <curty@free.fr>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Strangeness when binary executable overwritten by text -- bug or feature?
Date 2018-10-31 17:40 +0100
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On 2018-10-31, rhkramer@gmail.com <rhkramer@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> 
>> >> Due a non-reproducible sequence of events, a binary executable was over
>> >> written by the contents of a man page in pure text format.
>> > 
>> > Just to (maybe?) help with the proper focus, was this a human error or
>> > something that seemed to happen without human intervention?
>> 
>> As I replied to Reco, "Cannot reproduce detailed PEBKAC ;< "
>
> Ok, then, it doesn't seem to indicate a disk problem (as some seemed to 
> suspect).
>

Yeah, I didn't get that hard drive failure part either but thought it
was a question of superior knowledge and cleverness on the part of Mr.
R.

The OP probably should have started by saying, "I don't know how, but I
fucked up and overwrote a binary executable with a man page," and then
we all could've had a good laugh. At least he's reading those man pages.
I do note, however, he didn't say *info* page. 

But I don't have a firm grasp of the issues involved here (if there are
any whatsoever), so I'll bow out (once again).

-- 
When you have fever you are heavy and light, you are small and swollen, you
climb endlessly a ladder which turns like a wheel. 
--Jean Rhys, Voyage in the Dark

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Strangeness when binary executable overwritten by text -- bug or  feature? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-10-31 15:20 +0100
  Re: Strangeness when binary executable overwritten by text -- bug  or feature? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-10-31 15:30 +0100
    Re: Strangeness when binary executable overwritten by text -- bug or  feature? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-10-31 15:40 +0100
      Re: Strangeness when binary executable overwritten by text -- bug or  feature? Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2018-10-31 15:40 +0100
        Re: Strangeness when binary executable overwritten by text -- bug or feature? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-10-31 15:50 +0100
          Re: Strangeness when binary executable overwritten by text -- bug or feature? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-10-31 16:00 +0100
        Re: Strangeness when binary executable overwritten by text -- bug or feature? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-10-31 15:50 +0100
      Re: Strangeness when binary executable overwritten by text -- bug  or feature? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-10-31 16:00 +0100
  Re: Strangeness when binary executable overwritten by text -- bug or  feature? Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2018-10-31 15:30 +0100
    Re: Strangeness when binary executable overwritten by text -- bug or  feature? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-10-31 15:50 +0100
    Re: Strangeness when binary executable overwritten by text -- bug or  feature? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-10-31 16:00 +0100
  Re: Strangeness when binary executable overwritten by text -- bug or feature? rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-10-31 16:40 +0100
    Re: Strangeness when binary executable overwritten by text -- bug or  feature? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-10-31 16:50 +0100
      Re: Strangeness when binary executable overwritten by text -- bug or feature? rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-10-31 17:00 +0100
        Re: Strangeness when binary executable overwritten by text -- bug  or feature? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-10-31 17:40 +0100
        Re: Strangeness when binary executable overwritten by text -- bug or  feature? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-10-31 17:40 +0100
  IT IS A BUG -- Re: Strangeness when binary executable overwritten by  text -- bug or feature? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-11-04 14:30 +0100
    Re: IT IS A BUG -- Re: Strangeness when binary executable  overwritten by text -- bug or feature? Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2018-11-04 14:40 +0100
      Re: IT IS A BUG -- Re: Strangeness when binary executable overwritten  by text -- bug or feature? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-11-05 13:20 +0100
        Re: IT IS A BUG -- Re: Strangeness when binary executable  overwritten by text -- bug or feature? Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2018-11-05 13:40 +0100
          Re: IT IS A BUG -- Re: Strangeness when binary executable  overwritten by text -- bug or feature? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-11-05 15:10 +0100
            Re: IT IS A BUG -- Re: Strangeness when binary executable  overwritten by text -- bug or feature? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-11-05 16:10 +0100

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