[Buildroot] zcat default
Heikki Lindholm
holindho at cs.helsinki.fi
Fri Feb 23 18:43:53 UTC 2007
Hi,
BR2_ZCAT defaults to zcat, and it is basically always used to extract
files with .gz suffix. POSIX zcat [1] is specified to append .Z to
filenames that don't already have such suffix. This is also the
behaviour on Mac OS X. Therefore, it would make sense to use gunzip -c
or gzip -dc as a default instead.
[1] http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/utilities/zcat.html
-- Heikki Lindholm
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