Re: [Gnu-arch-users] revc responses

[Andrew Suffield]

On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 04:57:08PM -0700, Eric Wong wrote:
> > I'm unclear what advantage you see (or even what exactly you mean)
> > about gzip vs. zlib.  Do you mean fork/exec the gzip program?  Why
> > would that be an improvement?
> 
> No, there's no need to fork/exec the gzip binary in revc, but you can
> create gzip-readable files using the zlib library.

I always considered this a simple bug in the way zlib is invoked, and
had in the past stated an intent to fix it, when revc was more
complete.

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