bug#29418: new snapshot available: gzip-1.8.47-10d7

2017-11-23 Thread Jim Meyering
Pretty sure we're not quite ready for a release, but there have been enough changes that it's worth another snapshot. Here's the most recent NEWS addition: Commands implemented via shell scripts are now more consistent about failure status. For example, 'gunzip --help >/dev/full' now co

bug#29418: new snapshot available: gzip-1.8.47-10d7

2017-11-23 Thread Paul Eggert
Perhaps this is overkill, but how about the attached followup patch for that gzexe problem with filesystems that do not support symlinks? The idea is to use a variant of Bruno's suggestion that the file should always exist. >From c1065f84b242c9c46f08970ebb1df7edb567f149 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 F

bug#29418: new snapshot available: gzip-1.8.47-10d7

2017-11-23 Thread Jim Meyering
On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 10:28 PM, Paul Eggert wrote: > Perhaps this is overkill, but how about the attached followup patch for that > gzexe problem with filesystems that do not support symlinks? The idea is to > use a variant of Bruno's suggestion that the file should always exist. Nice. That loo