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-rw-r--r--archival/libarchive/open_transformer.c11
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/archival/libarchive/open_transformer.c b/archival/libarchive/open_transformer.c
index 1aeba13bc..27854af21 100644
--- a/archival/libarchive/open_transformer.c
+++ b/archival/libarchive/open_transformer.c
@@ -200,7 +200,16 @@ int FAST_FUNC open_zipped(const char *fname)
|| (ENABLE_FEATURE_SEAMLESS_BZ2)
|| (ENABLE_FEATURE_SEAMLESS_XZ)
) {
- setup_unzip_on_fd(fd, /*fail_if_not_detected:*/ 1);
+ /*
+ * Do we want to fail_if_not_detected?
+ * In most cases, no: think "insmod non_compressed_module".
+ * A case which would like to fail is "zcat uncompressed_file":
+ * otherwise, it happily outputs uncompressed_file as-is,
+ * which is, strictly speaking, not what is expected.
+ * If this ever becomes a problem, we can add
+ * fail_if_not_detected bool argument to open_zipped().
+ */
+ setup_unzip_on_fd(fd, /*fail_if_not_detected:*/ 0);
}
return fd;