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Date:      Tue, 23 Apr 1996 04:54:51 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        bde@zeta.org.au, phk@critter.tfs.com
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org, dyson@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: gzip bug
Message-ID:  <199604221854.EAA14944@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>> The gzip bug was introduced in the big vm patch on 1996/01/19
>...
>What I wanted to say with that was, don't expect the version prior to
>that patch to have been >correct< maybe the vm system just was more
>tolerant before...

My cut down version doesn't use the vm system apart from malloc() and
free() and initialization and cleanup in the higher level exec function.
If inflate() is trashing something then it must be fairly subtle to
have not been found by phkmalloc.  I'll try inflate() as an lkm.

Bruce



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