Make the strings utility reject directories.

PR binutils/21659
	* strings.c (strings_file): Warn about attempts to run strings on
	a directory.
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Nick Clifton 2017-06-23 10:22:36 +01:00
parent 0dd5cbc563
commit 0e158763b0
2 changed files with 11 additions and 0 deletions

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@ -446,6 +446,11 @@ strings_file (char *file)
file, strerror (errno));
return FALSE;
}
else if (S_ISDIR (st.st_mode))
{
non_fatal (_("Warning: '%s' is a directory"), file);
return FALSE;
}
/* If we weren't told to scan the whole file,
try to open it as an object file and only look at