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bug#33878: zcat vs zcat -f -- different output
From: |
Namikaze Minato |
Subject: |
bug#33878: zcat vs zcat -f -- different output |
Date: |
Thu, 27 Dec 2018 14:09:37 +0100 |
Thanks a lot for the explanation!
I checked and my files do contain unexpected NUL-byte trailing!
Have a nice day.
Minato
On Wed, 26 Dec 2018 at 19:03, Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Namikaze Minato wrote:
>
> > Do you know what could be happening?
>
> When gzip -cdf sees junk input data, it simply copies it to standard output;
> this behavior is documented in the gzip manual (look for --force). Your input
> files have NUL-byte padding at the end, contrary to Internet RFC 1952.
>
> > Do you know how I could try to reproduce the problem on
> > non-confidential data for you to be able to debug?
>
> $ (gzip </dev/null; printf '\0') >t.gz
> $ gzip -cd <t.gz | od -c
> 0000000
> $ gzip -cdf <t.gz | od -c
> 0000000 \0
> 0000001
>
> Though it's not a bug....