[BusyBox] gunzip broken
Kenneth Chalmers
kenneth.chalmers at norscan.com
Wed Mar 28 19:23:06 UTC 2001
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...
-Ken
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