tag 354310 + patch thanks On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 11:48:10AM +1100, Kevin Ryde wrote:
> The thing that made me go to gzerror was of course that it gives a
> string description. Maybe gzclose could note that you can't get a
> string for its error (assuming that's in fact the case).
I've sent this patch upstream which hopefully clarifies this (it will
appear in the next Debian version too):
--- zlib-1.2.3/zlib.h.orig 2006-02-18 08:37:38.000000000 +0000
+++ zlib-1.2.3/zlib.h 2006-02-25 12:02:18.000000000 +0000
@@ -1230,7 +1230,8 @@
/*
Flushes all pending output if necessary, closes the compressed file
and deallocates all the (de)compression state. The return value is the zlib
- error number (see function gzerror below).
+ error number (see function gzerror below). Note that even when an error
+ is returned the file will be closed so gzerror cannot be called.
*/
ZEXTERN const char * ZEXPORT gzerror OF((gzFile file, int *errnum));
--
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