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Issue of the Standard # S0267

Brief

Z_BLOCK is not defined anywhere.

Detailed Description

The section ‘Flush Operation’ of the description of the function inflate() states the following:
“If flush is set to Z_BLOCK, inflate() shall stop adding data to the output buffer if and when the next compressed block boundary is reached (see RFC 1951: DEFLATE Compressed Data Format Specification).”
However the Z_BLOCK is not defined anywhere in the Standard.

Problem location(s) in the standard

Linux Standard Base Core Specification 3.1, Chapter 14. Utility Libraries, 14.4. Interface Definitions for libz, the description of the <nobr>inflate()</nobr> function.

Accepted

LSB Bugzilla, 1518

Status

Fixed in LSB 3.1 Update 1

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