Hi Paul, Another question :
IS gzip sensible to environnement variable and can break a pipe if some Env varibale are set ? Regards Franck Jolimay Senior Implementation and Support Engineer Thomson Reuters Phone: +41 (0)58 306 2406 Mobile: +33 6 46 78 10 96 franck.joli...@thomsonreuters.com thomsonreuters.com -----Original Message----- From: Jolimay, Franck J. (M Tech Ops) Sent: Monday, September 13, 2010 9:27 AM To: 'Paul Eggert' Cc: bug-gzip@gnu.org Subject: RE: gzip issue on solaris10 Hi Paul, I have same release as gzip as you. bash-3.00$ gzip -V gzip 1.3.5 (2002-09-30) Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation Copyright 1992-1993 Jean-loup Gailly This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. You may redistribute copies of this program under the terms of the GNU General Public License. For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING. Compilation options: DIRENT UTIME STDC_HEADERS HAVE_UNISTD_H HAVE_MEMORY_H HAVE_STRING_H HAVE_LSTAT Written by Jean-loup Gailly. patched for Sun BugIDs 6294656 6283819 patched for CVE-2006-4334, CVE-2006-4335, CVE-2006-4336, CVE-2006-4337, CVE-2006-4338 Me too , when I try interactive, it is working fine, but when done by a background process Somethimes it works, sometimes it is not working. As a workaround, I had gzip -d my file and compress it With compress, and then with compress format it works every time...not a very clean solution.. Regards Franck Jolimay Senior Implementation and Support Engineer Thomson Reuters Phone: +41 (0)58 306 2406 Mobile: +33 6 46 78 10 96 franck.joli...@thomsonreuters.com thomsonreuters.com -----Original Message----- From: Paul Eggert [mailto:egg...@cs.ucla.edu] Sent: Monday, September 13, 2010 2:49 AM To: Jolimay, Franck J. (M Tech Ops) Cc: bug-gzip@gnu.org Subject: Re: gzip issue on solaris10 I can't reproduce the problem on my Solaris 10 host (sparc), using Sun's gzip. Here's how I tried to reproduce it. Perhaps you could try the same thing, and see if you get similar results? The examples below use only files that are supplied with Solaris 10, in some package or another. $ gzip -d </usr/dt/config/images/styleModern-backdrop-1280.pm.gz >pipe& [1] 5883 $ cat pipe >cat.out [1]+ Done gzip -d </usr/dt/config/images/styleModern-backdrop-1280.pm.gz >pipe $ gzip -d </usr/dt/config/images/styleModern-backdrop-1280.pm.gz >pipe1.out $ cmp cat.out pipe1.out $ type gzip gzip is hashed (/usr/bin/gzip) $ gzip --version gzip 1.3.5 (2002-09-30) Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation Copyright 1992-1993 Jean-loup Gailly This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. You may redistribute copies of this program under the terms of the GNU General Public License. For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING. Compilation options: DIRENT UTIME STDC_HEADERS HAVE_UNISTD_H HAVE_MEMORY_H HAVE_STRING_H HAVE_LSTAT Written by Jean-loup Gailly. patched for Sun BugIDs 6294656 6283819 patched for CVE-2006-4334, CVE-2006-4335, CVE-2006-4336, CVE-2006-4337, CVE-2006-4338 $ ls -l /usr/bin/gzip -r-xr-xr-x 3 root bin 63704 Dec 18 2006 /usr/bin/gzip $ md5sum /usr/bin/gzip f5b23c183fec58f8c1ecdb4a405cade5 /usr/bin/gzip This email was sent to you by Thomson Reuters, the global news and information company. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Thomson Reuters.
