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....
