bzip2: race condition and infinite loop [LWN.net]

bzip2: race condition and infinite loop

Posted May 26, 2005 19:32 UTC (Thu) by landley (subscriber, #6789)
Parent article: bzip2: race condition and infinite loop

If it's the same infinite loop bug I hit, I first reported it a year and a half ago, while rewriting bzip2 for the busybox project:

http://busybox.net/lists/busybox/2003-November/009878.html

I emailed Julian Seward about it at the time...

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slightly off-topic: Smirky comments in jest

Posted Jan 15, 2007 4:40 UTC (Mon) by pr1268 (subscriber, #24648) [Link]

crap.c? Nice module naming standards! Reminds me of my C code.

We discussed the concept of "reverse compression" in a graduate CS course I took this past Fall, but 44 bytes → 500 MB takes the cake. (Never mind that it hadn't finished compressing yet.) ;-)

Thank you for testing the fix and following up with it.