On 4/20/2011 12:39 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Apr 8 15:43, Jon TURNEY wrote: >> bzip2 compressed files are allowed to contain multiple streams of >> compressed data. So if we arrive at BZ_STREAM_END but are not at >> EOF, restart the decompressor. Decompress any data which remains >> in the stream before reading any more. > > I take this at face value since I'm not fluent in bzip compression. > So, if that helps to circumvent a potential problem, just go ahead. > Does that really occur in some of our tar.bz files?
Apparently it happens when pbzip [*] is used (on a cross build environment, since cygwin does not actually ship pbzip) to compress the tarball. [*] Parallel BZip2: http://www.compression.ca/pbzip2/ -- Chuck
