bug#44904: closed (Zip file deleted despite exit with warning.)

[GNU bug Tracking System]

Your message dated Mon, 30 Nov 2020 20:03:56 -0800
with message-id <dc8cd97d-0072-8109-bfe1-71e7ba5e85d7@cs.ucla.edu>
and subject line Re: bug#44904: Zip file deleted despite exit with warning.
has caused the debbugs.gnu.org bug report #44904,
regarding Zip file deleted despite exit with warning.
to be marked as done.

(If you believe you have received this mail in error, please contact
help-debbugs@gnu.org.)


-- 
44904: http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=44904
GNU Bug Tracking System
Contact help-debbugs@gnu.org with problems

--- Begin Message --- Subject: Zip file deleted despite exit with warning. Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2020 16:27:07 +0000

Hello:

I'm decompressing some very important files as we speak, and while attempting to do so, it returned a warning that "entries after the first were ignored" and failed to output any useful files. The sample usage was:

gzip -d foo.zip

This returned only a single, small, corrupted file called "foo." Now, I only see one entry there, and Googling the problem really didn't help. More to the point, though...the first time I did this foo.zip was deleted. Which is a problem since, as I mentioned, these are important files. Upon further examination, I see that the -k is necessary to prevent this from happening, but I'm surprised that a) default behaviour is to delete files after usage, and b) it would do so even after a warning or error? This latter behaviour is what I perceive to be a bug, above all else, though I find the default behaviour in general to be baffling and unintuitive.

Thanks in advance.

Jason W. Robertson, Ph.D. (he/him)

Research Associate, Brain Networks and Neurophysiology Lab

Department of Anaesthesia, Pain Management, and Perioperative Medicine

Dalhousie University

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Email: jason.robertson@dal.ca

--- End Message ---

> --- Begin Message ---
>
>
>
> Subject: 
>
> Re: bug#44904: Zip file deleted despite exit with warning.
>
>
>
>
> Date: 
>
> Mon, 30 Nov 2020 20:03:56 -0800
>
>
>
>
> User-agent: 
>
> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.5.0
>
>
>
>
> On 11/30/20 6:25 AM, Jason Robertson wrote:
> > I can't email foo.zip because it got deleted. 🙁
>
> OK, thanks, if we can't reproduce the problem I'll close the bug report. We can 
> reopen it later if needed.
>
>
> --- End Message ---