[PATCH] Fix reading from stdin with "gzip -d foo.gz -"

[Lasse Collin]

(Cc'ing Paul as suggested by Jim. Sorry if it wasn't useful.)

gzip allows using "-" to indicate reading from stdin. However, if "-" is 
not the first name on the command line, it doesn't work:

    $ echo test1 > test1
    $ echo test2 > test2
    $ echo test3 > test3
    $ gzip test*
    $ cat test2.gz | gzip -dv test1.gz - test3.gz
    test1.gz:       -33.3% -- replaced with test1

    gzip: stdin: Bad file descriptor

test1.gz is uncompressed, but test2.gz and test3.gz are not. The 
expected output would have been:

    test1.gz:       -33.3% -- replaced with test1
    test2
    test3.gz:       -33.3% -- replaced with test3

get_method calls functions that use the global variable ifd as the input 
file descriptor. The problem is that ifd isn't initialized when 
using "-" as the filename. It happens to work when "-" is the first 
filename, because ifd is zero (i.e. STDIN_FILENO) at program startup.

The following minimal patch makes ifd initialization explicit when 
reading from stdin. Maybe a cleaner (but bigger) fix would be not to 
expect both the argument to get_method and the global ifd to have the 
same value.

diff -ru gzip-1.3.12.orig/gzip.c gzip-1.3.12/gzip.c
--- gzip-1.3.12.orig/gzip.c     2007-03-20 07:09:51.000000000 +0200
+++ gzip-1.3.12/gzip.c  2008-10-16 14:24:12.631442023 +0300
@@ -626,6 +626,7 @@
     clear_bufs(); /* clear input and output buffers */
     to_stdout = 1;
     part_nb = 0;
+    ifd = fileno(stdin);

     if (decompress) {
        method = get_method(ifd);

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