bug#24371: Bad value of size with --list

2016-09-05 Thread Mark Adler
On Sep 5, 2016, at 7:45 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: > Since there is nothing in gzip that can be changed to address this, > I'm closing the ticket. Well, technically there is, but it could be argued that the fix is not in the spirit of -l, i.e. not O(1) in time. The fix is that gzip could decompress

bug#24371: Bad value of size with --list

2016-09-05 Thread Jim Meyering
On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 2:39 AM, messages JB wrote: > Hi! > > The size of the file restored by the option "--list" is incorrect if the > file is more big than 4GB. > >[/mnt/DATA/TEST]ll >total 8184100 >-rw-r--r-- 1 jacques jacques *8380511744* févr. 16 2016 file.bin > >[/mnt/DATA/T

bug#24371: Bad value of size with --list

2016-09-05 Thread messages JB
Hi! The size of the file restored by the option "--list" is incorrect if the file is more big than 4GB. [/mnt/DATA/TEST]ll total 8184100 -rw-r--r-- 1 jacques jacques *8380511744* févr. 16 2016 file.bin [/mnt/DATA/TEST]gzip file.bin [/mnt/DATA/TEST]gzip -l file.bin.gz