Dear gzip-maintainers,
the uncompressed file size is still displayed wrong when it's
value doesn't fit into 32 bits. Example:
joh...@rose:/mnt/backup/2010-10-17> gunzip -l image_ssd01.gz
compressed uncompressed ratio uncompressed_name
8274217726 1128095744 -633.5% image_ssd01
the value for compressed is correct,
for uncompressed it's 160041885696 instead of 1128095744
and the ratio is plain nonsense
Speculation: the value for uncompressed is 32 bits only.
I've even 'proved' it:
160041885696 = 0x25433D6000, reducing this to 32 bits
gives 0x433D6000 = 1128095744, the displayed value.
The problem occurs on KNOPPIX 6.2.1 and openSuSE 11.3.
The compression and uncompression seem to be OK, but when
doing backups I'm highly concerned when seeing wrong numbers.
So this really _is_ important.
On openSuSE 11.3: "gzip --version"
gzip 1.3.13
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Copyright (C) 1993 Jean-loup Gailly.
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Written by Jean-loup Gailly.
