[BusyBox] busybox gzip pipe problem?

Glenn McGrath bug1 at optushome.com.au
Sun May 6 20:51:39 UTC 2001


Tom Oehser wrote:
> 
> Douglas Bollinger wrote on the tomsrtbt list:
> ...
> and restore the tape archives using afio, I noticed that the gzipped files
> weren't get decompressed; the pipe just died.  I guess  Busybox gzip can't
> handle pipes? :(  After thinking for a bit, I checked the Linux side of my
> ...
> With the old version of gzip, I was able to successfully pull the files off
> the tape and restore the entire partition!  Now that I have that all worked
> ...
> 

There was a bug with uncompressing from stdin in the last release (i was
trying to seek), its fixed in CVS.


Thanks

Glenn





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