Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 17:39:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Peter Losher <Peter_Losher@isc.org> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: amd64/66008: gzip has issues for files larger than 4GB... Message-ID: <200404270039.i3R0dcm8060454@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200404270040.i3R0eO9S097550@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 66008 >Category: amd64 >Synopsis: gzip has issues for files larger than 4GB... >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-amd64 >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Mon Apr 26 17:40:24 PDT 2004 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Peter Losher >Release: FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE >Organization: ISC >Environment: FreeBSD kaboom.isc.org 5.2.1-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p4 #2: Wed Apr 21 09:01:21 PDT 2004 root@kaboom.isc.org:/usr/src/sys/amd64/compile/KABOOM64 amd64 >Description: After compressing a 2GB file on a amd64 system, decompressing it throws up an error: gunzip: test1.gz: invalid compressed data--format violated This also may be a issue on other 64-bit platforms in general, but I don't have FreeBSD on any of that hardware to test this on. >How-To-Repeat: Compress a 4GB+ file on a amd64 system and then gunzip it. >Fix: Apply patch from the GZip developers: http://www.gzip.org/4g-patch.tar or this patch from the amd64 list: http://marc.10east.com/?l=freebsd-amd64&m=108277176430545&w=2 (Thanks to Tim Robbins) >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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