The following reply was made to PR bin/32105; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Hauke Fath <hauke@Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE>
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
Cc: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org, gnats-admin@NetBSD.org,
	netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: bin/32105: gzip exits with non-zero status for >=4GB input.
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 20:01:10 +0100

 At 15:55 Uhr +0100 18.11.2005, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
 >> 	For compatibility of scripts written before, and interoperability
 >> 	of gnu-gzip, it should not claims for >=4GB input and should
 >> 	exit with 0, IMHO.
 >
 >The current state will also probably cause problems with tools using gzip
 >in a pipe,
 
 s/probably/definitely/g
 
 Seen here, patched around it. It was brought up by Peter Seebach and
 discussed several times on various lists, but nothing ever came of it.
 
 	hauke
 
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