* [Buildroot] zcat default
@ 2007-02-23 18:43 Heikki Lindholm
2007-03-09 8:24 ` Bernhard Fischer
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From: Heikki Lindholm @ 2007-02-23 18:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: buildroot
Hi,
BR2_ZCAT defaults to zcat, and it is basically always used to extract
files with .gz suffix. POSIX zcat [1] is specified to append .Z to
filenames that don't already have such suffix. This is also the
behaviour on Mac OS X. Therefore, it would make sense to use gunzip -c
or gzip -dc as a default instead.
[1] http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/utilities/zcat.html
-- Heikki Lindholm
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* [Buildroot] zcat default
2007-02-23 18:43 [Buildroot] zcat default Heikki Lindholm
@ 2007-03-09 8:24 ` Bernhard Fischer
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From: Bernhard Fischer @ 2007-03-09 8:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: buildroot
On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 08:43:53PM +0200, Heikki Lindholm wrote:
>Hi,
>
>BR2_ZCAT defaults to zcat, and it is basically always used to extract
>files with .gz suffix. POSIX zcat [1] is specified to append .Z to
>filenames that don't already have such suffix. This is also the
>behaviour on Mac OS X. Therefore, it would make sense to use gunzip -c
>or gzip -dc as a default instead.
>
>[1] http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/utilities/zcat.html
Agree. Changed in r18045. Thanks for the heads up
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