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bug#23315: Bug in gzip-1.7
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From: |
Jim Meyering |
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Subject: |
bug#23315: Bug in gzip-1.7 |
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Date: |
Wed, 20 Apr 2016 09:23:52 -0700 |
On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 6:02 PM, Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 04/19/2016 01:34 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
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>> you really should not rely on gzip's -l option
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> These users are probably dealing with small (< 4 GiB) files for which -l
> should work fine. And three bug reports in one day, ouch. It may be a good
> idea to generate a new gzip version sooner rather than later.
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> Sorry about the bug, by the way. I got confused because gzip.c calls
> close_stdin but not close_stdout, so I wasn't worried about 'exit' closing
> stdout again. I had forgotten that close_stdin calls close_stdout (!).
No problem.
I'll make another release soon.