1.5.1: unzip problems with binary files in archive
Charles Wilson
cygwin@cwilson.fastmail.fm
Tue Jul 29 09:00:00 GMT 2003
Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>>I'm getting a strange error from unzip when trying to extract an
>>>>archive that contains binary files. Everything works fine if the
>>>>archive contains just text files.
>>>
>>>Can't duplicate it. Sorry.
>>
>>I've since discovered that it has to do with the size of the .zip file,
>>not the contents. Seems like things work for files <= 8k and fail for
>>larger files.
>
>
> I don't understand. You provided a test case. I ran the test case.
> It did not fail for me.
I --can-- duplicate it. But I don't know why it happens; I'll have to
debug it...but not until after I update to 1.5.1. FWIW, zip does use
fdopen().
However, I've just suffered a catastrophic server failure on my home
network (server's dead), so it may take a while. It's time to go
shopping...
--
Chuck
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