From: Jaipaul Cheernam <jaipaul.cheernam@est.tech>
To: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: [scarthgap][PATCH] bzip2: fix 'bzip2 --version > /tmp/aaa 2>&1' hang
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2026 10:54:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260716085422.20905-1-jaipaul.cheernam@est.tech> (raw)
From: Hongxu Jia <hongxu.jia@windriver.com>
According to [1]
As of the current version 1.0.8, bzip2 --version will print version
info but it will also continue compressing stdin:
$ ./bzip2 --version
bzip2, a block-sorting file compressor. Version 1.0.8, 13-Jul-2019.
Copyright (C) 1996-2019 by Julian Seward.
This program is free software; [...]
bzip2: I won't write compressed data to a terminal.
bzip2: For help, type: `bzip2 --help'.
Debian (and its downstreams like Ubuntu) will patch this out [2],
making the < /dev/null unnecessary, port a part of debian patch
to fix the issue
[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59757176/why-using-dev-null-with-a-program-like-bzip2
[2] https://sources.debian.org/src/bzip2/1.0.8-6/debian/patches/20-legacy.patch/
Signed-off-by: Hongxu Jia <hongxu.jia@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Dubois-Briand <mathieu.dubois-briand@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
(cherry picked from commit ae4fe4263ba9d372f9b9e80df4ec4697b51c1f9b)
Signed-off-by: Jaipaul Cheernam <jaipaul.cheernam@est.tech>
---
...-fix-bzip2-version-tmp-aaa-will-hang.patch | 62 +++++++++++++++++++
meta/recipes-extended/bzip2/bzip2_1.0.8.bb | 1 +
2 files changed, 63 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 meta/recipes-extended/bzip2/bzip2/0001-fix-bzip2-version-tmp-aaa-will-hang.patch
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/bzip2/bzip2/0001-fix-bzip2-version-tmp-aaa-will-hang.patch b/meta/recipes-extended/bzip2/bzip2/0001-fix-bzip2-version-tmp-aaa-will-hang.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..84206b2a4d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/bzip2/bzip2/0001-fix-bzip2-version-tmp-aaa-will-hang.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+From a9dd6acbaca836fc4e943e69a31b2e7acda32045 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Hongxu Jia <hongxu.jia@windriver.com>
+Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 19:49:23 +0800
+Subject: [PATCH] fix 'bzip2 --version > /tmp/aaa 2>&1' hang
+
+According to [1]
+
+As of the current version 1.0.8, bzip2 --version will print version
+info but it will also continue compressing stdin:
+
+ $ ./bzip2 --version
+ bzip2, a block-sorting file compressor. Version 1.0.8, 13-Jul-2019.
+
+ Copyright (C) 1996-2019 by Julian Seward.
+
+ This program is free software; [...]
+
+ bzip2: I won't write compressed data to a terminal.
+ bzip2: For help, type: `bzip2 --help'.
+
+Debian (and its downstreams like Ubuntu) will patch this out [2],
+making the < /dev/null unnecessary:
+
+[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59757176/why-using-dev-null-with-a-program-like-bzip2
+[2] https://sources.debian.org/src/bzip2/1.0.8-6/debian/patches/20-legacy.patch/
+
+Upstream-Status: Submitted [bzip2-devel@sourceware.org]
+
+Signed-off-by: Hongxu Jia <hongxu.jia@windriver.com>
+---
+ bzip2.c | 8 +++++---
+ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/bzip2.c b/bzip2.c
+index d95d280..6ec9871 100644
+--- a/bzip2.c
++++ b/bzip2.c
+@@ -1890,7 +1890,9 @@ IntNative main ( IntNative argc, Char *argv[] )
+ case '8': blockSize100k = 8; break;
+ case '9': blockSize100k = 9; break;
+ case 'V':
+- case 'L': license(); break;
++ case 'L': license();
++ exit ( 0 );
++ break;
+ case 'v': verbosity++; break;
+ case 'h': usage ( progName );
+ exit ( 0 );
+@@ -1916,8 +1918,8 @@ IntNative main ( IntNative argc, Char *argv[] )
+ if (ISFLAG("--keep")) keepInputFiles = True; else
+ if (ISFLAG("--small")) smallMode = True; else
+ if (ISFLAG("--quiet")) noisy = False; else
+- if (ISFLAG("--version")) license(); else
+- if (ISFLAG("--license")) license(); else
++ if (ISFLAG("--version")) { license(); exit ( 0 ); } else
++ if (ISFLAG("--license")) { license(); exit ( 0 ); } else
+ if (ISFLAG("--exponential")) workFactor = 1; else
+ if (ISFLAG("--repetitive-best")) redundant(aa->name); else
+ if (ISFLAG("--repetitive-fast")) redundant(aa->name); else
+--
+2.34.1
+
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/bzip2/bzip2_1.0.8.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/bzip2/bzip2_1.0.8.bb
index f922490868..fa205edbb0 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/bzip2/bzip2_1.0.8.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/bzip2/bzip2_1.0.8.bb
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ SRC_URI = "https://sourceware.org/pub/${BPN}/${BPN}-${PV}.tar.gz \
file://configure.ac;subdir=${BP} \
file://Makefile.am;subdir=${BP} \
file://run-ptest \
+ file://0001-fix-bzip2-version-tmp-aaa-will-hang.patch;subdir=${BP} \
"
SRC_URI[md5sum] = "67e051268d0c475ea773822f7500d0e5"
SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "ab5a03176ee106d3f0fa90e381da478ddae405918153cca248e682cd0c4a2269"
next reply other threads:[~2026-07-16 8:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-16 8:54 Jaipaul Cheernam [this message]
2026-07-23 8:46 ` [OE-core] [scarthgap][PATCH] bzip2: fix 'bzip2 --version > /tmp/aaa 2>&1' hang Yoann Congal
2026-07-23 9:26 ` [scarthgap][PATCH v2] " Jaipaul Cheernam
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