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Re: New bugs, old bugs


From: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero () redhat de>
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 17:20:35 +0100 (CET)

On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Pavel Kankovsky wrote:

Bzip2 is probably as bad as its two friends [3].

Not the current version:

[bero@spock ~]$ rpm -q bzip2
bzip2-1.0.1-4
[bero@spock ~]$ bzip2 `perl -e 'print "A" x 8192;'`
'AAAAA[...]AAAA' is suspiciously (more than 1024 chars) long.
Try using a reasonable file name instead.  Sorry! :-)
[bero@spock ~]$

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