Compression - Z_BUF_ERROR in zlib

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Z_BUF_ERROR in zlib

byaarov@yahoo.com

2007-03-26, 9:56 pm

On some streams, inflate generates a Z_BUF_ERROR. I dont see the
examples code in zlib (like zpipe.c) deal with that error. Is this
error safe to ignore?

Mark Adler

2007-03-28, 3:56 am

On Mar 26, 5:06 pm, byaa...@yahoo.com wrote:
> On some streams, inflate generates a Z_BUF_ERROR. I dont see the
> examples code in zlib (like zpipe.c) deal with that error. Is this
> error safe to ignore?

It's not the stream by itself that incites the error -- it's the way
the software in question happens to to be breaking up the pieces to
feed zlib.

In any case, please read http://zlib.net/zlib_how.html . It explains
in detail what Z_BUF_ERROR means and what to do with it.

Mark

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