Re: Editing zipped files with VIM under cygwin

["Strohhaecker, Bernd" <BStrohhaecker@Hueller-Hille.com>]

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von:	Corinna Vinschen [SMTP:cygwin@cygwin.com]
> Gesendet am:	Dienstag, 13. November 2001 14:01
> An:	cygwin@cygwin.com
> Betreff:	Re: Editing zipped files with VIM under cygwin
> 
> On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 12:03:19PM +0100, Strohhaecker, Bernd wrote:
> > let e = executable(name)
> > This fails on my (cygwin-)system for any program:
> > :echo executable("bash")
> > Rufe Shell auf, um "(which bash) >/tmp/v645258/1 2>&1" auszuführen
> > 
> > Datei "/tmp/v645258/1" kann nicht gelesen werden-1
> 
> Did you install the which package?  `which' is not a bash
> internal command.

Yes, I've installed latest/which/which-1.4.tar.gz

> > 2. 'bzip2 --version > xx' doesn't finish.
> 
> I can reproduce that but don't know why that happens, currently.
> 
> Corinna

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von:	Michael Schaap [SMTP:cygwin@mscha.com]
> Gesendet am:	Dienstag, 13. November 2001 14:35
> An:	cygwin@cygwin.com
> Betreff:	Re: Editing zipped files with VIM under cygwin
> 
> ...
> 
> As you can see, the --version flag doesn't stop bzip2 from trying to 
> compress standard input.
> Possible workarounds:
> 
> $bzip2 --version --help 2>qqq
> 
> $bzip2 --version </dev/null >/dev/null 2>qqq
> 
>   - Michael

Yes, thanks, taking a look at bzip2.c shows, that there's 
simply no exit-call after displaying the license.

Is the following patch reasonable ?

--
Bernd

$ diff -u bzip2.c.org bzip2.c
--- bzip2.c.org Tue Nov 13 14:43:09 2001
+++ bzip2.c     Tue Nov 13 14:44:20 2001
@@ -1632,6 +1632,7 @@
     "   \n",
     BZ2_bzlibVersion()
    );
+   exit(1);
 }


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