Subject: [bug#35880] [PATCH 7/7] lzlib: 'lzread!' never returns more than it was asked for.

From: Pierre Neidhardt <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 26 May 2019 22:57:51 +0200

Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]> writes:

> Pierre Neidhardt <[email-masked]> skribis:
>
>>> Fixes a bug whereby 'lzread!' could return more than COUNT.
>>
>> Hmm... But why is this a bug?
>
> Because then the ‘read!’ method of the custom binary input port could
> return more than ‘count’, which is understandably not permitted.

That's the part where I'm a bit confused because we deal with compressed
data here.

So when we say "(read count)", does COUNT refer to the compressed or
uncompressed data?

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