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Cygwin not honoring setmode
- From: Brad Bell <bradbell at seanet dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 06:07:29 -0800
- Subject: Cygwin not honoring setmode
This problem has been discussed before under the subject heading
"Problem with gzip". In particular, the message
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2004-04/msg00494.html
appears to state that a problem with "cygwin not honoring setmode" was
fixed.
On Saturday, October 30, 2004, I downloaded and installed the current
version of the Cygwin. It appears to me that this problem is back It is
hard to work around this problem when using automake and autoconf, which
assume piping into gzip works properly.
The following shell script demonstrates the problem in my copy of the
October 30, 2004 version of Cygwin:
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# Running the following program
#
echo "test" > Test.dat
tar -cf Test.tar Test.dat
cat Test.tar | gzip - -c > Test.tar.gz
rm Test.tar
gunzip Test.tar.gz
#
# produces the following output
#
# gunzip: Test.tar.gz: invalid compressed data--format violated
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