Bug 443605
| Summary: | 'gzip -l' shows bogus information when file is bigger than 4GB | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | Reporter: | Hannes Kuehnemund <hannes.kuehnemund> |
| Component: | gzip | Assignee: | Ivana Varekova <varekova> |
| Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 5.1 | CC: | linux, nphilipp, rdoty |
| Target Milestone: | rc | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2008-05-06 13:14:25 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description of problem: 'gzip -l' shows bogus information if file is bigger then 4GB. Seen on IA64 RHEL4.6 with gunzip 1.3.3 # ls -la test.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4260425963 Apr 22 16:31 test.tar.gz # gunzip -l test.tar.gz compressed uncompressed ratio uncompressed_name 4260425963 8192 -52007052.6% test.tar Seen on x86_64 RHEL5.1 with gunzip 1.3.5 # ls -la test.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4260425963 Apr 22 16:46 test.tar.gz # gunzip -l test.tar.gz compressed uncompressed ratio uncompressed_name 4260425963 8192 -52007052.6% test.tar Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gunzip from RHEL 4.6 and 5.1 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. tar -czf file.tar.gz <very huge file> 2. gunzip -l file.tar.gz Actual results: compressed uncompressed ratio uncompressed_name 4260425963 8192 -52007052.6% test.tar Expected results: compressed uncompressed ratio uncompressed_name 4260425963 11567405143 38% test.tar