#4400: gzip-1.10
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Reporter: bdubbs | Owner: lfs-book
Type: task | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: 8.4
Component: Book | Version: SVN
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Comment (by bdubbs):
* Noteworthy changes in release 1.10 (2018-12-29) [stable]
** Changes in behavior
Compressed gzip output no longer contains the current time as a
timestamp when the input is not a regular file. Instead, the output
contains a null (zero) timestamp. This makes gzip's behavior more
reproducible when used as part of a pipeline. (As a reminder, even
regular files will use null timestamps after the year 2106, due to a
limitation in the gzip format.)
** Bug fixes
A use of uninitialized memory on some malformed inputs has been fixed.
[bug present since the beginning]
A few theoretical race conditions in signal handers have been fixed.
These bugs most likely do not happen on practical platforms.
[bugs present since the beginning]
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