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[PATCH 0/7] Lzip support for 'guix publish' and 'guix substitute'

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Message #47 received at 35880 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Pierre Neidhardt <mail <at> ambrevar.xyz>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
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 22:57:51 +0200

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Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> writes:

> 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.

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?

-- 
Pierre Neidhardt
https://ambrevar.xyz/

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