bug#17804: closed (RFC: fixing the 32-bit size and time limits in gzip file format)

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has caused the debbugs.gnu.org bug report #17804,
regarding RFC: fixing the 32-bit size and time limits in gzip file format
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> RFC: fixing the 32-bit size and time limits in gzip file format
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> Wed, 18 Jun 2014 15:44:12 +0200
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> Hi all,
> I would like to open this topic again, which was discussed few years ago [0]
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> Petr
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> [0] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gzip/2010-08/msg00009.html
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> On 6/18/14 15:12, Paul Eggert wrote:
> > One simple way forward would be to implement what pigz -tl does, namely, 
> > decompress the input stream and discard the output, but print its size.
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> I finally got around to implementing that suggestion:
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> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gzip.git/commit/?id=cf26200380585019e927fe3cf5c0ecb7c8b3ef14
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gzip.git/commit/?id=32fef43b442c7abc70414863d64718cd06f6477a
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> So I am closing this old bug report.
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