[PATCH] Support gzip compressed exec and core files in gdb

[Michael Eager]

On 05/01/2015 10:53 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Fri, 01 May 2015 07:40:26 -0700
>> From: Michael Eager <eager@eagerm.com>
>>
>> On 03/10/2015 04:01 PM, Michael Eager wrote:
>>> Add support to automatically unzip compressed executable and core files.
>>> Files will be uncompressed into temporary directory (/tmp or $TMPDIR)
>>> and are deleted when GDB exits.  This should be transparent to users,
>>> except for disk space requirements.  The name of the uncompressed file is
>>> mentioned, but all references to the file in GDB messages is to the file
>>> which the user specified.
>>
>> Attached is a revised patch.  I discovered a logic error after refactoring
>> the code.
>
> OK for the documentation parts.
>
>> +  decomp_fd = mkstemp (template);
>
> Do we have mkstemp on all supported platforms?

It looks like there is a version in gnulib, if not supported natively.

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