GNU bug report logs - #32815
Corrective patch for GNU gzip

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Package: gzip;

Reported by: Manfred Morgner <manfred.morgner <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2018 22:55:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Manfred Morgner <manfred.morgner <at> gmail.com>, 32815 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#32815: Corrective patch for GNU gzip
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2018 18:42:22 -0700

Manfred Morgner wrote:
> Hello all,
> the manual page of GNU gzip says:
> Exit status is normally 0; if an error occurs, exit status is 1. If a warning occurs, exit status is 2.
> This is not the case sind version >1.5 for the situation when the source file already ends with .gz
> Test:
> $ gzip 2018.gz
> gzip: 2018.gz already has .gz suffix -- unchanged
> $ echo $?
> 0

Why is this a bug? Arguably no error has occurred.
This bug report was last modified 3 years and 58 days ago.

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