GZIP Decompress -- Data Loss Through File Deletion

2010-02-11 Thread Ripduman Sohan
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 file deletion. I believe the

GZIP Decompress -- Data Loss Through File Deletion

2010-02-11 Thread Ripduman Sohan
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 file deletion. I believe the