Popen: gzip data compression on the fly, how?

Question

linux

I want to run linux gzip through popen (lua / php / c), write a string to it and read the already compressed response.

popen('gzip >&1', 'wb')
write(uncompressed_data)
compressed_data = read('*all')
pclose() So

gzip >&1
So?

Do I need to send some special character at the end of uncompressed_data to work properly, or will it immediately compress all incoming data to stdin?

Answer 1

https://m.habr.com/ru/post/221849/