#25 doesn't wait for gzip/bzip child
When decrypting and decompressing data, the main mcrypt process launches gzip or bzip2 to decompress the decrypted stream, but doesn't wait for this child to finish.
Example:
Create a 100MB file of zeros:
dd if=/dev/zero of=zeros bs=1048576 count=100
Compress it with bzip2 and encrypt:
mcrypt -p -k somekey <zeros>encrypted
Now decompress it, and test the output file after mcrypt has exited. Use this command:
mcrypt -d -p -k somekey <encrypted>restored; ls -l restored; sleep 1; ls -l restored; sleep 1; ls -l restored
You'll get an output similar to this one:
Stdin was decrypted.
-rw-r--r-- 1 egmont users 0 2007-04-23 19:00 restored
-rw-r--r-- 1 egmont users 83931136 2007-04-23 19:00 restored
-rw-r--r-- 1 egmont users 104857600 2007-04-23 19:00 restored
As seen, when mcrypt exits, the output file is still empty, and it is filled up later.
This makes it impossible to be used in shell scripts where the resulting file is processed further, e.g. copied to a remote machine...