[jira] [Updated] (HADOOP-6297) Hadoop's support for zlib library lacks support to perform flushes (Z_SYNC_FLUSH and Z_FULL_FLUSH)

["Robert Joseph Evans (Updated) (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Robert Joseph Evans updated HADOOP-6297:
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    Status: Open  (was: Patch Available)

Canceling this patch as it is over a year old.  Kevin, if you are still interested in adding in this functionality please up-merge and post a new patch, I would be happy to review it and commit it for you.  If you have given up on the patch please indicate it in the comments and I can close the JIRA for you if you like.  
                
> Hadoop's support for zlib library lacks support to perform flushes (Z_SYNC_FLUSH and Z_FULL_FLUSH)
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>                 Key: HADOOP-6297
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-6297
>             Project: Hadoop Common
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: io
>            Reporter: Kevin J. Price
>            Assignee: Kevin J. Price
>            Priority: Minor
>         Attachments: zlibpatch-0.3.patch, zlibpatch.patch
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> The zlib library supports the ability to perform two types of flushes when deflating data. It can perform both a Z_SYNC_FLUSH, which forces all input to be written as output and byte-aligned and resets the Huffman coding, and it also supports a Z_FULL_FLUSH, which does the same thing but additionally resets the compression dictionary.  The Hadoop wrapper for the zlib library does not support either of these two methods.
> Adding support should be fairly trivial.  An additional deflate method that takes a fourth "flush" parameter, and a modification to the native c code to accept this fourth parameter and pass it along to the zlib library.  I can submit a patch for this if desired.
> It should be noted that the native SUN Java API is likewise missing this functionality, as has been noted for over a decade here: http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4206909

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