XZ embedded bug unpacking linux-3.8.tar.xz

Denys Vlasenko vda.linux at googlemail.com
Wed Feb 27 16:28:02 UTC 2013


On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Lasse Collin <lasse.collin at tukaani.org> wrote:
> liblzma in XZ Utils has a flag to decode concatenated streams to make
> it a bit easier to handle such files. I would prefer to not include
> such a flag in XZ Embedded, since I think in most embedded situations
> (boot loaders, kernels etc.) such a flag is useless. Busybox is an
> exception to this.
>
> Below is a patch to add support for concatenated .xz streams. It also
> handles possible padding (sequence of zero-bytes) between the streams.
> It probably has room for improvement, but it should be a useful starting
> point.

Applied, thanks!
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vda


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