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author | aku <andreas.kupries@gmail.com> | 2020-06-23 06:37:59 (GMT) |
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committer | aku <andreas.kupries@gmail.com> | 2020-06-23 06:37:59 (GMT) |
commit | dbc3e640a2807e90bad8ebaef6f4ebb06178a18c (patch) | |
tree | 34527bf036e8b44ca63d9df460f6130110c69433 /doc/zlib.n | |
parent | b0791473e99d375f6f3b65b13f99728e552f2b5a (diff) | |
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Added two tests demonstrating that the tickets [8af92dfb66] (bad stream expansion) and [f70ce1fead] (multi-stream decoding without readahead limit shenanigans) are fixed.
Verified that the tests fail with commit [4eb66645d6], just before the zlib fixes.
Tweaked the zlib manpage paragraphs about -limit.
Tweaked some code comments.
Fixed typos in description of two unrelated zlib tests.
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@@ -193,12 +193,18 @@ How hard to compress the data. Must be an integer from 0 (uncompressed) to 9 .TP \fB\-limit\fI readaheadLimit\fR . -The maximum number of bytes ahead to read when decompressing. This can be set -to 1 to find the border for multi-stream inflate or mixed data, to ensure it -would handle correctly e. g. some operations on following streams after first -caused to due time. -Otherwise Tcl would try to automatically return previously read extra data -to input stream back. +The maximum number of bytes ahead to read when decompressing. +.RS +.PP +This option has become \fBirrelevant\fR. It was originally introduced +to prevent Tcl from reading beyond the end of a compressed stream in +multi-stream channels to ensure that the data after was left alone for +further reading, at the cost of speed. +.PP +Tcl now automatically returns any bytes it has read beyond the end of +a compressed stream back to the channel, making them appear as unread +to further readers. +.RE .PP Both compressing and decompressing channel transformations add extra configuration options that may be accessed through \fBchan configure\fR. The |