On Tue, 2015-06-16 at 14:17 +0200, Mark Wielaard wrote: > Even simpler is to always just (also) call ftruncate to set the right > file size. Which is what the attached patch does. It also includes some > test cases to check in-place-eu-strip actually reduces the file size. > > I'll update the elfutils fedora package so there is a fix right now. But > unless people complain I would like to just make a 0.163 release end of > the week with this fix and any other urgent fixes because I think this > is a somewhat bad regression and we should urge people to not just > patch, but to upgrade to a known good version.
The patch seems to have survived a fedora mass-rebuild with the intended effect. I have pushed it to master now. I go over the pending bug fixes and then I'll start preparing the bug-fix 0.163 release. Cheers, Mark
