[Crash-utility] [PATCH] Fix junk values when run crash on a .gz file

Dave Anderson anderson at redhat.com
Tue Dec 6 14:50:23 UTC 2011



----- Original Message -----
> On Mon, 2011-12-05 at 15:03 -0500, Dave Anderson wrote:
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > >
> > > So I guess the proper thing to do would be to check for the FNAME bit
> > > in the FLG byte, and if it's not set, I guess we could either accept
> > > the file without prejudice, or print a message indicating that the
> > > name has been stripped and that -f should be used.
> > 
> > I wasn't aware of "gzip -n" or "gzip --no-name" when I wrote the
> > original function.  How does the attached patch work for you?
> > Instead of either suggestion above, it will just print a NOTE if
> > you don't use "-f".
> > 
> > Dave
> > 
> Hi Dave,
> 
> The attached patch works for me. It prints the file name is unknown. How
> about printing the file name is unknown and -f should be used as u
> mentioned in the previous mail.

OK, will do -- queued for crash-6.0.2.

Thanks
  Dave




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