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Re: RFC: fixing the 32-bit size and time limits in gzip file format
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Mark Adler |
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Re: RFC: fixing the 32-bit size and time limits in gzip file format |
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Mon, 16 Aug 2010 17:41:50 -0700 |
On Aug 16, 2010, at 1:19 PM, Greg Roelofs wrote:
> Concatenated gzip streams made by newer gzips fail on older gzips, though.
Greg,
Yeah, good point. It doesn't work in that direction.
Another solution which works on any gzip file is to simply decompress the whole
thing without writing it and reporting the uncompressed length. pigz -tl does
that.
Mark
- Re: RFC: fixing the 32-bit size and time limits in gzip file format, (continued)
- Re: RFC: fixing the 32-bit size and time limits in gzip file format, Greg Roelofs, 2010/08/16
- Re: RFC: fixing the 32-bit size and time limits in gzip file format, Paul Eggert, 2010/08/16
- Re: RFC: fixing the 32-bit size and time limits in gzip file format, Mark Adler, 2010/08/17
- Re: RFC: fixing the 32-bit size and time limits in gzip file format, Mark Adler, 2010/08/17
- Re: RFC: fixing the 32-bit size and time limits in gzip file format, Paul Eggert, 2010/08/19
- Re: RFC: fixing the 32-bit size and time limits in gzip file format, Mark Adler, 2010/08/20
- Re: RFC: fixing the 32-bit size and time limits in gzip file format, Greg Roelofs, 2010/08/20
- Re: RFC: fixing the 32-bit size and time limits in gzip file format, Mark Adler, 2010/08/20
- Re: RFC: fixing the 32-bit size and time limits in gzip file format, Mark Adler, 2010/08/20
- Re: RFC: fixing the 32-bit size and time limits in gzip file format, Mark Adler, 2010/08/21
- Re: RFC: fixing the 32-bit size and time limits in gzip file format,
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