0000717: gunzip -t exits with wrong status - BusyBox Bug and Patch Tracking

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(0001481) landley 06-30-06 06:43	Sigh. The tar code is nasty and tangled, and seems like it would need an extensive rewrite to propagate back this error. Look at tar.c line 853: while (get_header_ptr(tar_handle) == EXIT_SUCCESS); /* Check that every file that should have been extracted was */ while (tar_handle->accept) { In this case, get_header_ptr should be a function pointer to get_header_tar_gz(), which returns either EXIT_SUCCESS or EXIT_FAILURE. EXIT_FAILURE means "couldn't extract a file". Could be end of file, could be an error, it doesn't distinguish. I need to rewrite this to just fork off a copy of gzip for both read and write, but that's not happening in 1.2.0...

(0001482) landley 06-30-06 06:48	Ah, hang on. You're talking about gunzip, not tar. My bad. In my tests, gunzip is exiting with an error code in each case I've seen. Since you didn't actually attach a file reproducing this error, and I can't reproduce it here, and your report is about a really old version, there's not much more I can do.

(0001483) landley 06-30-06 06:49	Cannot reproduce.

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