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

["Chris Douglas (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Chris Douglas reassigned HADOOP-6297:
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    Assignee: Kevin J. Price

> 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.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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