GNU bug report logs - #35880
[PATCH 0/7] Lzip support for 'guix publish' and 'guix substitute'

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Message #44 received at 35880 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Pierre Neidhardt <mail <at> ambrevar.xyz>
Cc: 35880 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] lzlib: 'lzread!' never returns more than it was asked
 for.
Date: Sun, 26 May 2019 21:54:50 +0200

Pierre Neidhardt <mail <at> ambrevar.xyz> 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.

> (By the way, nice rewrite, I like it much better than my C->Scheme
> translation ;p)

Heheh, I initially tried to minimize changes but I found it easier to
reason about this version.

Ludo’.

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