Subject: bug#49952: new snapshot available: gzip-1.10.34-aa73

From: "Adler, Mark" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2021 15:19:20 +0000

pigz -l doesn’t do that, but pigz -lt does. Since -t has to decode the whole file, -l combined with it will use that information to give the correct result. For compatibility, pigz -l still does what gzip does, which is to guess based on what it finds at the end of the file.

> On Aug 9, 2021, at 1:37 AM, Paul Eggert <[email-masked]> wrote:
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> On 8/9/21 1:02 AM, Stephen Kitt wrote:
>> Is there any chance https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gzip/2018-12/msg00010.html could be considered?
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> Better than that, why not just have 'gzip -l' print the correct number, by decompressing the whole file and discarding its bytes? That's what pigz does.
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