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Subject:	Re: 1.5.24: incorrect default behavior of dd in popen context on text-mounted filesystem
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On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 10:19:49AM -0400, hsw AT hodain DOT net wrote:
>Eric Blake writes:
>> According to Hugh Secker-Walker on 7/24/2007 9:48 AM:
>> > Firstly, a thank you to Eric Blake for his quick response to the
>> > dd problem we uncovered yesterday.
>> ...
>> Why not also thank cgf, who uploaded a fixed gzip yesterday?
>> Because of his fix, this should now work:
>> 
>> popen("gzip > popenbug.out.gz", "w")
>
>Yes, in my rush to try out the modified dd I did not notice that cgf
>had quietly fixed the binary issue in gzip.  So, thank you to cgf for
>so quickly fixing the original problem.

It wasn't "quietly":

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2007-07/msg00028.html
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-07/msg00615.html

You just weren't paying attention.

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