Bug#736872: busybox: zcat does not decompress file which do not have a .gz suffix

[Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>]

On Tue, 2014-01-28 at 13:07 +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> Uncortunately, this whole mess around compression introduces another issue.
> After the 2 fixes for this bug, busybox zcat happily accepts uncompressed
> input and behaves like regular cat, while original zcat refuses to accept
> uncpmpressed input.  I reported this upstream.

Ugh, nasty. (It seems to me that the code is simply trying to be too
clever...)

> But I think it is better
> to accept and use uncompressed data than to fail to decompress compressed
> data, and the current bug is indeed serious enough to have a quick fix.

I agree.

> Thank you!

Thanks for the speedy upload!

Ian.