Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 10:47:31 +0300 From: Diomidis Spinellis <dds@aueb.gr> To: LI Xin <delphij@delphij.net> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Call for testers: Replace GNU gzip with NetBSD's gzip implementation Message-ID: <4529FE93.3050007@aueb.gr> In-Reply-To: <4529BF26.1040108@delphij.net> References: <4529BF26.1040108@delphij.net>
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LI Xin wrote: > Here is a patchset that replaces the GNU gzip with NetBSD's gzip > implementation, which uses zlib to do actual compress/decompress operation: > > Go to your src/usr.bin and execute the following shar archive: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~delphij/for_review/bsd_gzip/shar-bsd-gzip-20061009 > > Then, go to src/ and apply the following patch: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~delphij/for_review/bsd_gzip/patch-remove-gnu-gzip-01 > > Currently this gzip implementation should work as a drop-in replacement > for GNU gzip. I am still working on some style issues here, etc., so > the current focus is functional test. > > Any sort of comments are welcome. The file zuncompress.c is very closely related to usr.bin/compress/zopen.c. Both are derived from work I did in 1992 to package the compress(1) functionality into a library. Maybe the time is now ripe to actually move the compression/decompression code into a reusable library component. Diomidis - dds@
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