From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2009 03:13:14 GMT
Subject: Re: Public repro case! Re: [PATCH/RFC] Allow writing loose objects that are corrupted in a pack file
Message-ID: <20090108031314.GG10790@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0901071904380.3283@localhost.localdomain>

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