Steve Frampton wrote:
> Linux appears to swap the bytes within the words:
Most Linux kernel based systems are little endian. So are many
others. Here is are two references that explains this in some detail.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/ien/ien137.txt
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According to Steve Frampton on 3/25/2008 3:46 PM:
| Hello,
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| Linux appears to swap the bytes within the words:
Because it's little-endian.
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| HPUX od shown as a baseline:
Because it's big-endian.
In short, this is not a bug. -x is short for -t
Hello,
Linux appears to swap the bytes within the words:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ uname -a
Linux bgr-7r4ved1l.soi.com 2.6.18-53.1.4.el5 #1 SMP Fri Nov 30 00:45:16
EST 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ od --version
od (GNU coreutils) 5.97
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation,
Artur Siekielski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Following command ends with 'segmentation fault' on my system:
>
> od --format=uC --width= /etc/passwd
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> Linux 2.6, glibc 2.3.2, coreutils 5.0
Thanks for the report.
That was fixed in coreutils-5.1.0.
Here's the entry from the NEWS file:
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Following command ends with 'segmentation fault' on my system:
od --format=uC --width= /etc/passwd
Linux 2.6, glibc 2.3.2, coreutils 5.0
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