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

From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 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 15:55:34 +0100

 On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 12:50:00PM +0000, Atsushi Onoe 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, like amanda and tar (I don't know if bacula uses the gzip binary
 or libz).
 
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 Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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