RE: linux gzip flakiness?

[Ken Shih]

interesting. thanks for your feedback.
however, we are not running exec shield.
thanks,k

-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Michlmayr [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 5:23 PM
To: Ken Shih
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: linux gzip flakiness?


* Paul Eggert <address@hidden> [2004-03-17 11:35]:
> Ken Shih <address@hidden> writes:
> > gzip: file.gz: invalid compressed data--crc error 
> > gzip: file.gz: invalid compressed data--length error 
> > 
> > Is there some known issue about this bug creeping in?
> 
> It's news to me.
> 
> Another possibility is that it's a hardware or kernel bug.  gzip tends
> to stress them a bit.

Ken, are you running a kernel with exec shield?  I've seen similar
problems recently on a machine with exec shield, but have not had time
to investigate yet.
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Martin Michlmayr
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