Ref: SUN Solaris 10 with gzip 1.3.5
The command gzip -l on large files compressed does not give the right
uncompressed file info...
Here are the details:
Issue: gzip -l displays wrong uncompressed file size.
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 518241124 Jul 14 07:18 philips12_dump.gz
r...@bharchive ->cp -p philips12_dump.gz test.gz
r...@bharchive ->gzip -d test.gz
r...@bharchive ->ls -l test
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6283230996 Jul 14 07:18 test <- This is the
real uncompressed file size.
r...@bharchive ->gzip -l philips12_dump.gz
compressed uncompressed ratio uncompressed_name
518241124 1988263700 73.9% philips12_dump
r...@bharchive ->gzip -V
gzip 1.3.5
(2002-09-30)
Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation
Copyright 1992-1993 Jean-loup Gailly
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
You may redistribute copies of this program
under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING.
Compilation options:
DIRENT UTIME STDC_HEADERS HAVE_UNISTD_H HAVE_MEMORY_H HAVE_STRING_H HAVE_LSTAT
Written by Jean-loup Gailly.
patched for Sun BugIDs 6294656 6283819
patched for CVE-2006-4334, CVE-2006-4335, CVE-2006-4336, CVE-2006-4337,
CVE-2006-4338
Please let me know if this is fixed in a later revision as I use this command
to determine if the backups are the right size
(uncompressed)
Thanks
Roger McIntyre
PACS Archive Technologies - Technical Support Engineer
Philips Healthcare Infomatics
rmcin...@verizon.net
roger.mcint...@philips.com
Phone- 941-752-3197
Cell - 941-447-4808
