Hello. I've been experiencing a problem with the bzip2_decompressor filter when reading from a stream attached to an incomplete file. Instead of throwing an exception or reaching EOF, the program just hangs. Consider the following example code (hello.cc) taken from the documentation: ----------------------------------------------------------- #include <fstream> #include <iostream> #include <boost/iostreams/filtering_streambuf.hpp> #include <boost/iostreams/copy.hpp> #include <boost/iostreams/filter/bzip2.hpp> int main() { using namespace std; using namespace boost; using namespace boost::iostreams; ifstream file("hello.bz2", ios_base::in | ios_base::binary); filtering_streambuf<input> in; in.push(bzip2_decompressor()); in.push(file); boost::iostreams::copy(in, cout); } ----------------------------------------------------------- Suppose this is compiled as "hello". The following command will generate a simple bzip2-compressed file: $ echo -e "Hello world\n" | bzip2 > hello-complete.bz2 The next line will copy everything but the last byte from "hello-complete.bz2" to "hello.bz2": $ dd if=hello-complete.bz2 of=hello.bz2 bs=1 count=53 So now if the program is run: $ ./hello It just hangs in an infinite loop, instead of throwing an exception or reaching EOF. In the same situation, gzip_decompressor throws an exception... Is there a reason for this not happening in this case, or is this just a bug? I'm using boost 1.33.0 with GCC 4.0.1 on an i686 with GNU/Linux. Thanks for any help. -- Tiago de Paula Peixoto <tiago@forked.de>