Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 12:53:49 -0800 From: Xin LI <delphij@delphij.net> To: Alexander Best <arundel@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: changing gzip's symlink handling to be consistent with bzip2, xz and GNU gzip Message-ID: <4CE19DDD.3070105@delphij.net> In-Reply-To: <20101115182409.GA97839@freebsd.org> References: <20101115182409.GA97839@freebsd.org>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Hi, On 11/15/10 10:24, Alexander Best wrote: > hi there, > > any thoughts on this patch? it changes the semantics of gzip so that it is > consistent with the semantics of bzip2, xz and for more important GNU gzip. Could you please elaborate more about the GNU gzip behavior? By the way I also found some difference between BSD gzip and GNU gzip: touch foo ln -s foo.nonexistent foo.gz gzip foo gzip: could not create output: foo.gz: File exists /usr/local/bin/gzip foo gzip: foo.gz already exists; do you wish to overwrite (y or n)? ^C (case 1) echo | /usr/local/bin/gzip foo gzip: foo.gz already exists; not overwritten gzip -f foo gzip: could not create output: foo.gz: File exists /usr/local/bin/gzip -f foo (succeeded; case 2). Cheers, - -- Xin LI <delphij@delphij.net> http://www.delphij.net/ FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! Live free or die -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (FreeBSD) iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJM4Z3cAAoJEATO+BI/yjfBLGoIAKcvx+bH6L0pJqLSv34bii6G 1FwXmPQqeIs+B5K8wNMmWblWLidJc2xkXxFCdJKsoZmgS6Hcakg6r1CzZ7tkjMAP CqYMG3cgkCiqZpgZ8QY3E3tmdxMqYk3EyII+TUv2xSNvUp8A7TPvC2vwS1eD3GzO OACbH/ULSJ30iMXi/A6nPkvEWesuExGplfpzzfJ0yCySKj/3HyXV87HxVw46LFYj XsG3F7WWUkVrIzCFGLgaN0ULRZlz30Fq4ODnm4sAnUJQx0hzHGUDmYkgLxqh50t5 AN81GC06I6XZttqIaM1FNm5Dp27Vh6uVfYd21lJ+g5ee5kXM6Fd03jSJOqZJiro= =QEEo -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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