Subject: Re: bin/32105: gzip exits with non-zero status for >=4GB input.
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
From: Hauke Fath <hauke@Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 11/18/2005 20:01:10
At 15:55 Uhr +0100 18.11.2005, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
>> For compatibility of scripts written before, and interoperability
>> of gnu-gzip, it should not claims for >=4GB input and should
>> exit with 0, IMHO.
>
>The current state will also probably cause problems with tools using gzip
>in a pipe,
s/probably/definitely/g
Seen here, patched around it. It was brought up by Peter Seebach and
discussed several times on various lists, but nothing ever came of it.
hauke
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