gzip-1.7-1 regression: cannot redirect output of gzip -l

Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com
Tue Apr 19 14:28:00 GMT 2016


On 04/19/2016 03:49 AM, Christian Franke wrote:
> gzip-1.7-1 reports a write error if result of -l is redirected:
> 
> $ uname -srvm
> CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW 2.5.0(0.297/5/3) 2016-04-11 09:55 i686
> 
> $ cygcheck -f /bin/gzip
> gzip-1.7-1
> 
> $ echo text | gzip > text.gz
> 
> $ gzip -l text.gz
>          compressed        uncompressed  ratio uncompressed_name
>                  25                   5 -40.0% text
> 
> $ gzip -l text.gz | cat
> gzip: write error: Bad file descriptor

Thanks for the report; I can confirm the problem exists upstream, so I'm
redirecting your report there.

$ ./gzip -l text.gz | cat
./gzip: write error: Bad file descriptor
$ git describe HEAD
v1.7-2-ga420fba

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Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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