[Zlib-devel] zlib version 1.2.3.8 available for testing

Arkadiusz Miskiewicz arekm at maven.pl
Sun Feb 14 06:37:17 EST 2010


On Sunday 14 of February 2010, Mark Adler wrote:
> On Feb 13, 2010, at 2:28 PM, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
> > This program works on 1.2.3.3, doesn't on 1.2.3.7 and 1.2.3.8 (didn't
> > test other versions).
> > 
> > The problem is likely with mode "w+b3".
> 
> That would be it.
> 
> In this case, I will leave the incompatibility as is.  The old gz[d]open()
> should not have accepted "+" in the first place.  Allowing "+" gives the
> user the impression that simultaneous reading and writing are possible. 
> They're not.  The new gz[d]open() rejects "+" as an error.

Ok.

btw. is there git/cvs repo with zlib somewhere? I want to track some change 
that breaks one program here [1] and git repo would be very nice for automated 
bisection.

> Mark

1. Most likely a bug in this program (poldek).
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