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
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 116967 ***