X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 11:33:50 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: 1.5.24: incorrect default behavior of dd in popen context on text-mounted filesystem Message-ID: <20070725153350.GH28357@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <200707241548.l6OFmXAE008571@linode.hodain.net> <46A64F0F.20706@byu.net> <200707251419.l6PEJnYK011631@linode.hodain.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200707251419.l6PEJnYK011631@linode.hodain.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15 (2007-04-06) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 10:19:49AM -0400, hsw@hodain.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. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/