Re: [PATCH] Support gzip compressed exec and core files in gdb

[Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>]

On 01 May 2015 15:03, Michael Eager wrote:
> On 05/01/2015 10:53 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >> Date: Fri, 01 May 2015 07:40:26 -0700
> >> From: Michael Eager <eager@eagerm.com>
> >>
> >> On 03/10/2015 04:01 PM, Michael Eager wrote:
> >>> Add support to automatically unzip compressed executable and core files.
> >>> Files will be uncompressed into temporary directory (/tmp or $TMPDIR)
> >>> and are deleted when GDB exits.  This should be transparent to users,
> >>> except for disk space requirements.  The name of the uncompressed file is
> >>> mentioned, but all references to the file in GDB messages is to the file
> >>> which the user specified.
> >>
> >> Attached is a revised patch.  I discovered a logic error after refactoring
> >> the code.
> >
> > OK for the documentation parts.
> >
> >> +  decomp_fd = mkstemp (template);
> >
> > Do we have mkstemp on all supported platforms?
> 
> It looks like there is a version in gnulib, if not supported natively.

libiberty limits itself to "mkstemps" since it provides a fallback for that ...
-mike

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