Re: Public repro case! Re: [PATCH/RFC] Allow writing loose objects that are corrupted in a pack file

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Jan 8, 2009, 03:13 UTC
Message-ID: <20090108031314.GG10790@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0901071904380.3283@localhost.localdomain>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

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> The Z_STREAM_ERROR probably comes from inflate() itself - and could very 
> easily be due to a allocation error in inflateInit leaving the stream data 
> incomplete.
> 
> Let me try wrapping that dang thing and send a patch.

Yup.  I'm actually doing the same thing...

-- 
Shawn.

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