Sorry about my message. Please ignore it. *After* writing it I noticed that I did not test 1.3.12. And here this bug is fixed. What a shame ...
Walter >______________________________________________ >Von: Mecky, Walter (Allianz ASIC) >Gesendet: Dienstag, 20. Mai 2008 09:34 >An: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; 'bug-gzip@gnu.org' >Betreff: Supposed bug found > >Hi, > >I don't know if these addresses are current and so first I want to ask if this >is the right one? I'm unsure because I found no newer stable version as 1.2.4 >at www.gzip.org and www.gnu.org. > >I think I found a bug in gzip in all versions I explored: from 1.2.4 until >1.3.12: if gzip is killed by some signal, for example SIGINT generated by the >intr character from your tty, it does an exit(1). So the caller cannot detect >that gzip was killed. It seems as a normal exit with exitcode 1. > >So the shell shows in "$?" the value 1 which is wrong. It should be 128+2 or >256+2. Some shells, for example bash, continue a script which the user want to >terminate. They would not do this if they detect that a process dies because >it was killed. > >The fix would be easy: gzip should restore the signal handling to default >after catching the signal and send this signal again to itself. I changed the >sourcecode and can give it to you if you want? > > >Regards >Walter Mecky > >Allianz Shared Infrastructure Services >AG2SES06 - Firewall Technologien und Netz Security >Windmühlstraße 14, 2. OG, Raum 2.189 >D-60627 Frankfurt am Main > >Phone +49 69 263 19028 >Fax +49 69 263 83948 >E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Allianz Shared Infrastructure Services GmbH: >Chairman of the Supervisory Board: Dr. Friedrich Wöbking >Management Board: Dr. Markus T. Müller (CTO), Dr. Kurt Servatius (COO) >For VAT-Purposes: VAT-Registration Number: DE 191 050 484 >Registered Office: Munich >Comm Reg.: München HRB 118 195 > >Please note: This email and any files transmitted with it is intended only for >the named recipients and may contain confidential and/or privileged >information. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not read, copy, >use or disclose the contents of this communication to others and notify the >sender immediately. Then please delete the email and any copies of it. Thank >you. >
