[debbugs-tracker] bug#23314: closed (gzip-1.7-1 regression: cannot redirect output of gzip -l)

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Re: gzip-1.7-1 regression: cannot redirect output of gzip -l Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2016 08:04:13 -0600 User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.7.1

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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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Re: bug#23314: gzip-1.7-1 regression: cannot redirect output of gzip -l Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2016 17:49:35 -0700 User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.7.1 Thanks for reporting the problem. I installed the attached gzip patch on savannah.

0001-gzip-fix-bug-with-l-output-to-pipes.patch
Description: Source code patch

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