Thanks for your reply Paul. I'm no longer involved in the maintenance of the Solaris host on which I tested, but this is what I see... 09:17:37 rml@ieng9:rml:1> uname -a SunOS ieng9.ucsd.edu 5.11 11.1 sun4v sparc sun4v Solaris 09:17:44 rml@ieng9:rml:2> ls -l /usr/bin/gzgrep -r-xr-xr-x 1 root bin 6010 Apr 15 2013 /usr/bin/gzgrep 09:18:01 rml@ieng9:rml:3> /usr/bin/gzgrep --version gzgrep (gzip) 1.4
Checking an unsupported (so not updated since release of 11.1) VM... 9:29:44 rml@sol11-1:rml:3> uname -a SunOS sol11-1 5.11 11.1 i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris 09:29:51 rml@sol11-1:rml:4> /usr/bin/gzgrep --version gzgrep (gzip) 1.4 I'll bring this to the attention of the group maintaining the OS in question. Thanks for your work supporting FOSS. -Bob On 5/17/2014 9:06 AM, Paul Eggert wrote: > Robert Lawhead wrote: >> The solaris box is running fully patched 11.1. > > That's, odd, because on the Solaris 11.1 box I have access to, gzgrep is > version 1.5: > > $ uname -srvmpi > SunOS 5.11 11.1 i86pc i386 i86pc > $ gzgrep --version | head -1 > gzgrep (gzip) 1.5 > > Perhaps there's some patch set your sysadmins are not installing? > >> I can confirm that its present in RedHat/CentOS 6.2, and ubuntu precice1 >> which is just a few months old. > > I'm not surprised: those releases were originally made in 2012, and predate > gzip 1.5. They probably don't think this bug worth fixing. > > I wouldn't install gzip 1.5 (released June 2012); like gzip 1.4, it has known > security holes (which I hope Solaris has patched). I'd install gzip 1.6 > (released June 2013). Please see: > > http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/gzip.html
