On Wed, Jan 15, 2025 at 10:18:28AM +0100, Robin Jarry wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I found out that rpmlint errors out without producing any meaningful result 
> when the analyzed RPMs contain binaries:

rpmlint should not blindly assume that output is valid text, but
should probably print a meaningful replacement message when it gets
something that is not utf-8.

> interpreter 
> ~e\006K\006$\0067\004\022\006\003\344\001\202\006_\006$\006A\006\003\e\006U

I just wanted to note that the tools probably just print anything
until \000, assuming the string is "ascii" (or some 8-bit encoding).
They probably could be smarted and reject anything that contains
characters that are not printable ASCII…

> I suspect this is a bug in binutils/files which should not print binary code 
> in lieu of the interpreter name. But maybe the culprit is in gcc.

Yeah, is seems like bugs at at least three levels.

Zbyszek
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