Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 23:22:25 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas David Rivers <ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com> To: ponds!freefall.cdrom.com!freebsd-hackers Subject: compress will now get an infinite loop on some types of bad input... Message-ID: <199608290322.XAA03028@lakes.water.net>
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Well -
I just noticed that my news wasn't flowing too well, so...
I looked in /usr/spool/news/in.coming (I run an old version of Cnews)
to find *gads* of input files, and one _very_ large nruntmp.NNN.
So, a quick ps tells me that the compress program has been
running for two days!
This is the first time such a problem has cropped up.
What happens here is that, either uucp, or my disk drive, has
corrupted a compressed batch from my newsfeed.... so compress
is getting really confused.
I tried the 1.1 compress, and it quickly ends with:
uncompress: corrupt input
I then tried 2.0, 2.0.5, 2.1 and 2.1.5 - all of these get the
infinite (well, extremely long anyway) behavious - that is, they
before I got tired of it...
I'm not sure who to send this to; suggestions?
Should I just do a send-pr with the corrupted input?
- Dave Rivers -
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