Hi,
We've had a bug reported against the version of gzip that we ship in
Solaris:
"The gzcmp and gzdiff (same script hardlinked) commands shipped with
Solaris
write to a file in the world writable directory '/tmp' if both of its
arguments are compressed files. 'set -C' is used to ensure that
On 10/03/2013 06:47 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
Rich Burridge wrote:
it would be better for these commands to use mktemp
That was done in gzip 1.3.10, released 2006-12-30.
Is this not working for you? If not, why not?
I can see mktemp usage in gzexe.in and zdiff.in, but the Solaris bug report
On 10/03/2013 09:14 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
The zdiff usage of set -C is executed only on older
platforms that lack mktemp, so it shouldn't be a problem.
Okay.
znew. What a dinosaur. It's hardly worth fixing, but I
installed this:
Excellent. We'll use a similar patch against the version w
On 10/03/2013 09:25 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 7:37 PM, Rich Burridge wrote:
...
Sorry, I probably confused things by giving their Solaris g names,
and by stating that gzcmp and gzdiff were hard-linked without actually
checking
(because that's no longer true in the l
