The following reply was made to PR bin/28995; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: matthew green <mrg@netbsd.org>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: PR/28995 CVS commit: src/usr.bin/gzip
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 09:30:21 +0000 (UTC)

 Module Name:	src
 Committed By:	mrg
 Date:		Thu Sep 15 09:30:21 UTC 2005
 
 Modified Files:
 	src/usr.bin/gzip: gzip.c
 
 Log Message:
 in file_compress() always stat() the input file.  this patch avoids
 reading from uninitialised space as provided by John Hein in PR#28995.
 
 
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 cvs rdiff -r1.74 -r1.75 src/usr.bin/gzip/gzip.c
 
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