Compressed exec and core files

[H.J. Lu]

On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 12:02 PM, Michael Eager <eager@eagerm.com> wrote:
> I'm working on a patch to BFD to support opening compressed
> exec and core files transparently.  When bfd_fopen is called
> to open a compressed file, the file would be decompressed into
> a temporary file, and the bfd for the temp returned.  Compression
> with gzip and bzip2 would be supported (others can be added later).
>
> This seems pretty straight-forward.  Any thoughts or comments?

Are you going to fork/exec gzip/bzip2 for this or call zlib/bzip2-libs?


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H.J.