Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks for reporting that. zdiff really is a can of worms. > Can you please try this patch? I installed it into the main CVS for gzip. > > 2006-12-23 Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * zdiff.in: Fix typo that broke most usages. Problem reported by > Jari Aalto in <http://bugs.debian.org/404114>. While we're at it, > fix a bunch of other problems. Handle "-" better. Send > diagnostics to stderr, not stdout. Use expr rather than echo | > sed, to handle special characters better. Report a diagnostic in > the 1-arg case, if the argument doesn't end in .gz or the like, > rather than having incomprehensible behavior. Do not require that > the inputs be regular files. Avoid creating a temporary entirely, > if /dev/fd works. If not, then resist denial-of-service attacks > better, by using mktemp. > * Makefile.am (gzip.doc.gz): New rule. > (check-local): Depend on it, and test zdiff for Debian bug 404114.
Confirmed. This fixes the bug; compiled from CVS. Jari
