On 04/20/2015 05:06 PM, Murthy Gandikota wrote: > > > ---------------------------------------- >> From: murthy64 AT hotmail.com >> To: eblake AT redhat.com; cygwin AT cygwin.com
No need to CC me - I read the list. Also, no need to include raw emails in your reply (we not only ask that you avoid top-posts, but also that you trim to relevent content). >> Yes, Sir. It did untar properly. So the problem is with the server >> compressing during the download (I get the file from a http server)? You may want to report that to the owner of the website you were downloading from. > > It would be doubly nice if cygwin handled it ;-) I'm not going to add a cygwin-specific patch; you'd get the same behavior on Linux. If you want to convince upstream to do double uncompression in a single process, then it will eventually percolate downstream; but I don't think anyone will want to take on a patch like that. > It seems gunzip had no problem recognizing the file as double compressed. No. Your manual gunzip removed one layer of compression, then your tar command (with or without the 'z') ran a second gunzip to remove the second layer of compression. There was no single process doing double uncompression. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
