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bug#49952: new snapshot available: gzip-1.10.34-aa73
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Adler, Mark |
Subject: |
bug#49952: new snapshot available: gzip-1.10.34-aa73 |
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Mon, 9 Aug 2021 15:19:20 +0000 |
pigz -l doesn’t do that, but pigz -lt does. Since -t has to decode the whole
file, -l combined with it will use that information to give the correct result.
For compatibility, pigz -l still does what gzip does, which is to guess based
on what it finds at the end of the file.
> On Aug 9, 2021, at 1:37 AM, Paul Eggert <eggert@CS.UCLA.EDU> wrote:
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> On 8/9/21 1:02 AM, Stephen Kitt wrote:
>> Is there any chance
>> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gzip/2018-12/msg00010.html could be
>> considered?
>
> Better than that, why not just have 'gzip -l' print the correct number, by
> decompressing the whole file and discarding its bytes? That's what pigz does.
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