JDK7's java.util.zip breakage with very large files

[Kumar Srinivasan]

On 2/7/2013 12:23 PM, Xueming Shen wrote:
> There is difference between doing
>
> "jar xvf data.jar data"
>
> and
>
> "jar xvf data.jar"

you can also use zipinfo -v to check CEN entries.

Kumar

>
> If the previous one works, it means the zip file should have
> the healthy end table there (it goes down to end->cen->
> loc->data file). The later goes from the sequential looking
> up from the beginning, so it only looks into the "loc" table,
> it may extract the file out even there is no cen and end tables.
>
> I thought you just did "java xvf data.jar" in your previous
> email.
>
> -Sherman
>
>
> On 02/07/2013 12:15 PM, Alexander Sack wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Xueming 
>> Shen<xueming.shen at oracle.com>  wrote:
>>> Alexander,
>>>
>>> Can  you do "jar xvf data.jar data" to extract the file?
>>>
>>>
>> As per original email, yes I can. Also md5sum checks out.
>>
>> But large files result in a malformed zip file.
>>
>> -aps
>