1.22.1: been hit by the zcat bug

Mike Frysinger vapier at gentoo.org
Tue Oct 21 17:41:42 UTC 2014


On 21 Oct 2014 18:41, Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Oct 2014, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On 20 Oct 2014 20:54, Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote:
> > > That deserves a patch in http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.22.1/,
> > > IMO.  At least, commits:
> > >
> > > 	7c47b560a8fc97956dd8132bd7f1863d83c19866
> > > 	b664f740d90880560ce46b11f766625341342e80
> > > 	640ce3de07807133796bccd0bdfa146bbfc788c7
> > >
> > > may be relevantat.
> >
> > what exactly are you calling "the zcat bug" ?  seems to me only the
> > first one should be backported.  `busybox zcat foo` failing when foo
> > is not compressed matches standard `zcat` behavior. -mike
> 
> Well, but it fails (but returns exit status success) even if the file
> is compressed (ex. gzipped) but the fipped file extension isn't .gz.
> It will procuce an exact copy of the original.

yes, but that bug is only fixed by the first commit in your list:
	7c47b560a8fc97956dd8132bd7f1863d83c19866

the others have no impact on that, hence my question as to what exactly
are you looking to get fixed ?
-mike
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