[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #43206] gunzip deletes source files

[Rik]

Follow-up Comment #4, bug #43206 (project octave):

Circling back to this issue since I just finished overhauling unpack.  What is
the Matlab-compatible behavior we are trying to duplicate?  Do they definitely
keep the original archive?

I think Mike's suggestion is the clean way to do things.  However, we could
cheat and just do:


copyfile (orig_gz_fname, tmp_gz_fname);
..gunzip actions..
movefile (tmp_gz_fname, orig_gz_fname);


This would also work across platforms and is simple to implement.  It, does,
however, require a copy of an archive file that might be very large.  On the
other hand, disk storage space is so cheap that it is probably meaningless to
optimize here.



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