XZ embedded bug unpacking linux-3.8.tar.xz

[Harald Becker]

Hi Antonio !

On 28-02-2013 14:34 Antonio Diaz Diaz <ant_diaz at teleline.es> wrote:
>Harald Becker wrote:
>> ... just as it would be nice to have a single zcat able to detect the
>> format and decompress ANY compressed stream (falling back to
>> operation of cat, if uncompressed data given to zcat).

Pleace read as: ... have a single zcat ... AS AN BUSBOX APPLET ...

>I guess you don't know zutils.
>http://www.nongnu.org/zutils/zutils.html

On my systems sits a script in /usr/local/zcat. That one works well on
on regular files, which is the 99.9% case I need. A zcat applet as part
of Busybox would simplify things, especially on small systems and on
rescue images.

IMO a wide spread general zcat (may be as part of GNU) would be better
than separate decompressors for every compression format ... but as a
little fly it is difficult to move the hole world.

--
Harald