Bug#411706: Debian bug#411706 confusing error message when attempting to compress a directory

[Jari Aalto]

forwarded 411706 Andrew Tridgell <r...@tridgell.net>
thanks

Hi Andrew,

There is this Debian bug[1] that probably never reached you:

    From: Sören Nils Kuklau <chuc...@mystfans.com>.

    rzip returns a confusing error message when the user
    attempts to compress a directory. It also leaves behind
    a small .rz file, on which runzip will hang.

    $ mkdir foo
    $ rzip foo
    Failed to map buffer in rzip_fd
    Fatal error - exiting
    $ ls
    foo/ foo.rz

    bzip2 handles this much more gracefully:

    $ bzip2 foo
    bzip2: Input file foo is a directory.

If you would you have time to take a look, that'd be gret.

Thanks,
Jari

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=411706