On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 11:10:35PM +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote: > On Friday 22 October 2010 20:07, Dan Fandrich wrote: > > pbzip2 is a parallel bzip2 compressor that uses multiple threads while > > compressing to linearly speed bzip2 compression by the number of cores > > available (see http://compression.ca/pbzip2/). The files it produces > > are compatible with traditional bzip2, but have slightly different output > > because of the way the independently-compressed blocks are concatenated. > > > > Unfortunately, this seems to prevent Busybox's bunzip2 from decompressing > > them fully. Busybox decompresses the first block, then silently stops > > without > > indicating any sort of error. It can be reproduced like this: > > Please try attached patch
Current git works great! Thanks for the fix. I didn't realize that bzip2 files could be simply concatenated like that, or that that was the trick pbzip2 used. >>> Dan _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
