Re: New bugs discovered!

[Ron DuFresne <dufresne () winternet com>]

Interesting, linux, old linux 3.5:

$ gzip -V
gzip 1.2.4 (18 Aug 93)
Compilation options:
DIRENT UTIME STDC_HEADERS HAVE_UNISTD_H ASMV

$ gzip `perl -e 'print "A" x 2048'`

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA: File name too long
Segmentation fault
$

Yet, on openbsd 2.9:

$ gzip -V
gzip 1.2.4 (18 Aug 93)
Compilation options:
DIRENT UTIME STDC_HEADERS HAVE_UNISTD_H DYN_ALLOC

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA: File name too long
$

And yet the same gzip ver on olderer SGI, IRIX 5.3:

> gzip -V
gzip 1.2.4 (18 Aug 93)
Compilation options:
DIRENT UTIME STDC_HEADERS HAVE_UNISTD_H


> gzip `perl -e 'print "A" x 2048'`
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA: File name too long
>

So, is this a flaw in gzip, or the libs it's compiled against?

Thanks,


Ron DuFresne
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