RE: gzip issue on solaris10

[Franck.Jolimay]

Hi Paul,

Another question : 

IS gzip sensible to environnement variable and can break a pipe if some
Env varibale are set ?

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Franck Jolimay
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jolimay, Franck J. (M Tech Ops) 
Sent: Monday, September 13, 2010 9:27 AM
To: 'Paul Eggert'
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: RE: gzip issue on solaris10

Hi Paul,

I have same release as gzip as you.

bash-3.00$ gzip -V
gzip 1.3.5
(2002-09-30)
Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation
Copyright 1992-1993 Jean-loup Gailly
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
You may redistribute copies of this program under the terms of the GNU
General Public License.
For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING.
Compilation options:
DIRENT UTIME STDC_HEADERS HAVE_UNISTD_H HAVE_MEMORY_H HAVE_STRING_H
HAVE_LSTAT Written by Jean-loup Gailly.
patched for Sun BugIDs 6294656 6283819
patched for CVE-2006-4334, CVE-2006-4335, CVE-2006-4336, CVE-2006-4337,
CVE-2006-4338

Me too , when I try interactive, it is working fine, but when done by a
background process Somethimes it works, sometimes it is not working. As
a workaround, I had gzip -d my file and compress it With compress, and
then with compress format it works every time...not a very clean
solution..

Regards

Franck Jolimay
Senior Implementation and Support Engineer


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-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Eggert [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Monday, September 13, 2010 2:49 AM
To: Jolimay, Franck J. (M Tech Ops)
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: gzip issue on solaris10

I can't reproduce the problem on my Solaris 10 host (sparc), using Sun's
gzip.  Here's how I tried to reproduce it.  Perhaps you could try the
same thing, and see if you get similar results?  The examples below use
only files that are supplied with Solaris 10, in some package or
another.

$ gzip -d </usr/dt/config/images/styleModern-backdrop-1280.pm.gz >pipe&
[1] 5883 $ cat pipe >cat.out
[1]+  Done                    gzip -d
</usr/dt/config/images/styleModern-backdrop-1280.pm.gz >pipe
$ gzip -d </usr/dt/config/images/styleModern-backdrop-1280.pm.gz
>pipe1.out $ cmp cat.out pipe1.out $ type gzip gzip is hashed
(/usr/bin/gzip) $ gzip --version gzip 1.3.5
(2002-09-30)
Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation
Copyright 1992-1993 Jean-loup Gailly
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
You may redistribute copies of this program under the terms of the GNU
General Public License.
For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING.
Compilation options:
DIRENT UTIME STDC_HEADERS HAVE_UNISTD_H HAVE_MEMORY_H HAVE_STRING_H
HAVE_LSTAT Written by Jean-loup Gailly.
patched for Sun BugIDs 6294656 6283819
patched for CVE-2006-4334, CVE-2006-4335, CVE-2006-4336, CVE-2006-4337,
CVE-2006-4338 $ ls -l /usr/bin/gzip -r-xr-xr-x 3 root bin 63704 Dec 18
2006 /usr/bin/gzip $ md5sum /usr/bin/gzip
f5b23c183fec58f8c1ecdb4a405cade5  /usr/bin/gzip


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