On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 05:16:26PM +0000, Eric Blake wrote: >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. I guess my test case was small enough that this didn't matter. If I made the file bigger I can see the problem. I'll update gzip ASAP. cgf -- 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/
