svn commit: r199066 - head/usr.bin/gzip

Xin LI delphij at delphij.net
Sun Nov 15 05:04:54 UTC 2009


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Jilles Tjoelker wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 03:27:44PM -0800, Xin LI wrote:
>> The previous fix has introduced an issue that revealed another bug as
>> well (gzip -d -c can't decompress large-ish input stream, i.e. something
>> like bzip2 -c ObsoleteFiles.inc | gunzip -d -c).  The proposed patch:
> 
>>  * Set end_of_file flag if we hit a short read.  This usually saves one
>> read after the actual end of file.
> 
> A short read does not necessarily mean EOF on a pipe or other
> non-regular file.

Yes you're right, what we really need is to distinguish between an
non-existent end of file and a real short read.  I'll see if I would
have some other alternatives.

Cheers,
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Xin LI <delphij at delphij.net>	http://www.delphij.net/
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