GNU bug report logs - #22768
Crash safety

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Package: gzip;

Reported by: Yanyan Jiang <jiangyy <at> outlook.com>

Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 16:02:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 22770

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #12 received at 22768-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Yanyan Jiang <jiangyy <at> outlook.com>, 22768-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#22768: Crash safety
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 23:28:07 -0800

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]
Thanks for reporting the problem. It's annoying that gzip must invoke fsync, as 
that's way overkill compared to the write-ordering that is needed and fsync will 
slow gzip down, but I don't see any safe and reasonably portable alternative so 
I installed the attached patch on Savannah, here:

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gzip.git/commit/?id=22aac8f8a616a72dbbe0e4119db8ddda0f076c04

[0001-fsync-output-file-before-closing.txt (text/plain, attachment)]
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