Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please <at> cygwin.com> writes:
> > gzip is linked with binmode.o, like most of the things that I maintain > (i.e., no upstream patch really necessary - isn't that my call?). If > I use a really simple test case of just outputting directly to a text > mode mount, it works fine. binmode.o to the contrary, there is indeed a problem: $ cd text $ ls $ strace -o traceA /bin/ls > /dev/null $ cp traceA traceB $ gzip < traceA > traceA.gz $ gzip < traceB | cat > traceB.gz $ ls -l total 88 -rwxr-xr-x 1 eblake Domain Users 33136 Jul 23 11:12 traceA* -rw-r--r-- 1 eblake Domain Users 7067 Jul 23 11:12 traceA.gz -rwxr-xr-x 1 eblake Domain Users 33136 Jul 23 11:12 traceB* -rw-r--r-- 1 eblake Domain Users 7033 Jul 23 11:12 traceB.gz traceA.gz has 34 spurious \r characters. (unrelated: strace build July 20 from CVS is behaving a bit weird; it did not want to do a path search when I tried 'strace -o traceA ls') -- Eric Blake -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/