[BusyBox] Re: [PATCH] Re: Sigh... this time i attached the file (bunzip-4.c)

[Glenn McGrath]

On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 09:57:35 -0600
mjn3 at codepoet.org (Manuel Novoa III) wrote:

> Of course, the analogy with read() does break down in another respect.
> Because read_bunzip() can read and buffer more than it needs, you
> might have unused data remaining in the bunzip buffer if there is data
> trailing the compressed block.  That is definitely an issue if you
> want to treat this as a "black box".

This is an issue i have run into with the dpkg and dpkg-deb applets, in
.deb's there are two .tar.gz inside an ar archive, if you read too much
much for the first tar.gz youve read past next ar header, and possibly
into the next .tar.gz.

(busybox supports .tar.bz2 inside deb's buts its non-standard)

hmm, i need to do some testing to verify its current behaviour.