Re: gzip 1.3.6 broken on Tandem NSK/OSS

[Matthew Woehlke]

Paul Eggert wrote:
> Matthew Woehlke writes:
> > Honestly, I'm a little confused/amused with this whole
> > situation... :-)
> > I'm used to using gzip as a stream compressor that /occasionally/
> > opens a file, unlinks it, and puts back a different file.
>
> The problem is that "gzip -r DIR" recursively traverses through DIR.
> Not many people use that option, but it's there and it should work.

Right, I was just making a quip as to that effect. :-)

Progress is good, but as you say, skipping fdopendir (for now) on 
platforms that don't have it (i.e. "historical behavior") should be 
fine, given how infrequently this is used.

(Also, apologies for dropping bugs-gzip, I'm used to gmane handling 
cross-posting, but obviously it doesn't if the list isn't on gmane. 
Paul: I take it you have not heard back from them yet?)

--
Matthew
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