Re: GZIP Decompress -- Data Loss Through File Deletion

2010-02-20 Thread Jim Meyering
Ripduman Sohan wrote: > There's a subtle bug in gzip (1.3.13) decompression when no suffixes > are employed. > > The command [gzip -d -S "" ] will, as expected, ask to > overwrite the output file. However, it goes on to unlink the newly > created (decompressed file) resulting in data loss through

Re: GZIP Decompress -- Data Loss Through File Deletion

2010-02-20 Thread Jim Meyering
Ripduman Sohan wrote: > There's a subtle bug in gzip (1.3.13) decompression when no suffixes > are employed. > > The command [gzip -d -S "" ] will, as expected, ask to > overwrite the output file. However, it goes on to unlink the newly > created (decompressed file) resulting in data loss through