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| author | delphij <delphij@FreeBSD.org> | 2007-03-16 03:50:53 +0000 |
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| committer | delphij <delphij@FreeBSD.org> | 2007-03-16 03:50:53 +0000 |
| commit | 9dd2be0d641e5fdca8ce09b1136f999d66de7374 (patch) | |
| tree | c66d329b39cc9a2482d3e8c669eafb8b8bb56e89 /usr.bin/gzip | |
| parent | 545f9291a9b9889a5ef02ff1fcd596b96c3fea3b (diff) | |
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Mention a limitation that was inherted from RFC1952, making
it impossible to obtain correct file size from a file that
is larger than 4GB before compression.
PR: bin/110329
MFC after: 1 week
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/gzip')
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/gzip/gzip.1 | 10 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/gzip/gzip.1 b/usr.bin/gzip/gzip.1 index b9f3a3b..16d715d 100644 --- a/usr.bin/gzip/gzip.1 +++ b/usr.bin/gzip/gzip.1 @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" .\" $FreeBSD$ -.Dd January 26, 2007 +.Dd March 16, 2007 .Dt GZIP 1 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -200,3 +200,11 @@ This implementation of .Nm was written by .An Matthew R. Green Aq mrg@eterna.com.au . +.Sh BUGS +According to RFC 1952, the recorded file size is stored in a 32-bit +integer and therefore it can not represent files that is bigger than +4GB in size. This limitation also applies to +.Fl l +option of +.Nm +utility. |
