Re: gzip: input file size weirdness.

Thanks.

I'll probably just install pkgsrc's gzip. At the moment the machine is actually
down over the holidays, since this morning, so now I can't fix it :(

On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 08:25:44AM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
>   gzip: input file size >= 4GB cannot be saved: Inappropriate ioctl for device
> 
> The 'inappropriate ioctl' message is spurious (what errno happened to
> be).  I have the following old local patch, which points out the issue
> (and changes to fix this in a different way than someone else fixed
> it).  Look for this in gzip and comment out the maybe_warn.  I don't
> know if this has been pulled up to netbsd-2.
> 
> 
> Index: gzip.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvsroot/src/usr.bin/gzip/gzip.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.79
> diff -u -r1.79 gzip.c
> --- gzip.c	22 Nov 2005 09:07:03 -0000	1.79
> +++ gzip.c	22 Nov 2005 13:24:57 -0000
> @@ -639,9 +639,15 @@
>  		 (int)(in_tot >> 24) & 0xff);
>  	if (i != 8)
>  		maybe_err("snprintf");
> -#if 0
> -	if (in_tot > 0xffffffff)
> -		maybe_warn("input file size >= 4GB cannot be saved");
> +#ifndef SMALL
> +	if (in_tot > 0xffffffff && vflag)
> +		/*
> +		 * RFC1952 specifies that ISIZE is modulo 2^32, so
> +		 * don't note this unless in verbose mode.  (Note that
> +		 * amanda reports any such output, which is
> +		 * distracting and therefore harmful.)
> +		 */
> +		warnx("input file size >= 4GB stored modulo 2^32");
>  #endif
>  	if (write(out, outbufp, i) != i) {
>  		maybe_warn("write");
> 

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