> Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 11:02:00 -0500 > From: Ken Brown <[email protected]> > CC: [email protected], [email protected] > > > I'm actually asking myself why do we redirect stdin to the file before > > reading it, instead of using 'fopen' to read the few first bytes, and > > then, only if it is compressed, redirect stdin to it and call 'popen'. > > Wouldn't that work around the problem? > > Like this?
Yes, that's what I had in mind. Thanks.
