bug#33878: zcat vs zcat -f -- different output

2018-12-27 Thread Namikaze Minato
Thanks a lot for the explanation! I checked and my files do contain unexpected NUL-byte trailing! Have a nice day. Minato On Wed, 26 Dec 2018 at 19:03, Paul Eggert wrote: > > Namikaze Minato wrote: > > > Do you know what could be happening? > > When gzip -cdf sees junk input data, it simply copi

bug#33878: zcat vs zcat -f -- different output

2018-12-26 Thread Paul Eggert
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

bug#33878: zcat vs zcat -f -- different output

2018-12-26 Thread Namikaze Minato
Hello guys. I have a large amount of confidential gzip compressed binary data. These files _all_ have a very specific property of giving a different output whether or not I use the "-f" flag of zcat (or gzip -d -c): one additional line appears when I use the -f flag. - I don't have the uncompress