[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #45331] unpack hangs when output file exists

[Rik]

Follow-up Comment #14, bug #45331 (project octave):

The second patch won't unpack files to the current directory if called like
so


unpack ("../foo.gz", [], "gz")


Also, with gunzip ('../foo.gz') I get the following error:


error: octave_base_value::convert_to_str_internal (): wrong type argument
'struct'
error: called from
    unpack at line 152 column 9
    gunzip at line 45 column 5
error: tilde_expand: expecting argument to be char or cellstr object
error: called from
    unpack at line 152 column 9
    gunzip at line 45 column 5


This is because without the default assignment in the prototype of the
function, dir is no longer a variable if gunzip is called with a single
argument.  Instead, when you call unpack you are calling it with the output of
the function dir() which is a structure.


function filelist = gunzip (gzfile, dir)

  if (nargin < 1 || nargin > 2)
    print_usage ();
  endif

  if (nargout > 0)
    filelist = unpack (gzfile, dir, "gunzip");
  else
    unpack (gzfile, dir, "gunzip");
  endif

endfunction




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