Control: reassign -1 gzip Control: retitle -1 zcat -t sometimes crashes with heap corruption Control: tag -1 moreinfo
On Mon, 16 Jul 2018 20:17:13 +0000 (UTC) john terragon <terragonj...@yahoo.com> wrote: [...] > the -t flag used with zcat does not have the same meaning it had with the other programs, xzcat, bzip2 and lzop. With the latter it > means "just do a test" with the former it is equivalent to -vT (neither -v nor -T means "test"). The manual page for zcat clearly states that -t does an integrity test. If it does not, that's a bug in zcat. > Now, this causes a strange and > unpredictable behavior of unmkinitramfs (and of lsinitramfs, which uses unmkinitramfs) where for some, not all, initrd files it just aborts its operations with this > > free(): invalid next size (normal) > > Aborted [...] Crashing on weird input is a bug in the program that crashes. Please report which version of gzip is installed. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Logic doesn't apply to the real world. - Marvin Minsky
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