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  1. Bug #1022287
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 1022287

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Gert van den Berg (mohag1) wrote :

See page 7 of https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1952.txt (ISIZE is the relevant field)

It is an limitation of the gzip file format...

It is also documented in the gzip man page under "BUGS", with a (slow) workaround...

One way to fix it might be to define an "extra field" with a larger original file size... The extra fields go into the header though, instead of the trailer, which means that it can't be correctly populated for data piped through gzip, since the size is not known when the header is written... (This also seems to be the suggestion here: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gzip/2010-08/msg00009.html )