Re: Fwd: [patch #6107] Patch to add transparent decompression

[Reuben Thomas]

Ping! Any opinion on this (comment-only) patch? (Sorry about the trailing whitespace in the last added line, which I just noticed.)

On 27 January 2013 23:44, Reuben Thomas <address@hidden> wrote:

On 27 January 2013 19:47, Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:

On 01/27/2013 10:13 AM, Reuben Thomas wrote:
> Perhaps it would be worth recording this fact in pipe-filter.h as a motivator?

I'm not sure, since I don't recall the issue.

If you don't recall it, that sounds more like a yes than a no!

 

Perhaps if you proposed a patch -- not too wordy I hope --
that would clarify things.

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diff --git a/lib/pipe-filter.h b/lib/pipe-filter.h
index c210ac4..ed1a79e 100644
--- a/lib/pipe-filter.h
+++ b/lib/pipe-filter.h
@@ -146,6 +146,11 @@ extern int
 
 struct pipe_filter_ig;
 
+/* It would be particularly nice to have this as it would enable a
+   simple implementation of filters in grep; see:
+
+   https://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?6107 */
+ 
 
 /* ============================ pipe_filter_gi ============================ */
 

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