[BusyBox] Re: gunzip broken

[Glenn McGrath]

Kenneth Chalmers wrote:
> 
> Unfortunately, with all the rewriting going on, it seems gunzip has been
> broken - particularily with respect to console/redirected output.  Session
> transcript follows:
> 
> $ ls -l
> total 264
> -rwxrwxr-x    1 chalmers chalmers   171536 Mar 28 13:05 busybox
> -rwxrwxr-x    1 chalmers chalmers    86237 Mar 28 13:19 test.gz
> $ ./busybox gunzip -c test.gz >foo
> Segmentation fault
> $ ls -l
> total 264
> -rwxrwxr-x    1 chalmers chalmers   171536 Mar 28 13:05 busybox
> -rw-rw-r--    1 chalmers chalmers        0 Mar 28 13:20 foo
> -rwxrwxr-x    1 chalmers chalmers    86237 Mar 28 13:19 test.gz
> $ rm foo
> $ ./busybox zcat test.gz >foo
> $ ls -l
> total 344
> -rwxrwxr-x    1 chalmers chalmers   171536 Mar 28 13:05 busybox
> -rw-rw-r--    1 chalmers chalmers        0 Mar 28 13:20 foo
> -rwxrwxr-x    1 chalmers chalmers   171536 Mar 28 13:20 test
> 
> Note especially the last test: I wanted zcat to write its output to foo, but
> it just decompressed the file in place.
> 
> Glenn, is this a quick fix?  Or should I submit it as a bug?  Or am I just
> crazy?  Enquiring minds want to know...
> 

I hope there is a quick fix :)

I will look at it straight away, i imagine it is something simple like
im not passing the correct file handle to unzip().

So dont worry about a bug report, if i cant get it fixed today then i
will consider doing a bug report.


Thanks

Glenn