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| From: | Joerg Schilling |
| Subject: | Re: [Bug-tar] Warning message when reading partial blocks from stdin. |
| Date: | Tue, 19 Apr 2005 13:53:05 +0200 |
| User-agent: | nail 11.2 8/15/04 |
Gunnar Ritter <address@hidden> wrote:
> Joerg Schilling <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > > Laurence Bond <address@hidden> writes:
> > > > gzip -d -c a_tar_file.tar.gz | tar tvf - > /dev/null
> > > > gtar: Read 9216 bytes from -
> [...]
> > A tar implementation should only write a warning/error message
> > only when the byte count is not a multiple of 512.
>
> I think it hardly makes sense to impose any requirements on incoming
> data beyond the two zero-filled 512-byte blocks at the end of the actual
> archive, in particular when physical blocking is meaningless as with a
> pipe.
The standard requires the tar archives to be blocked with a multiple of
512 bytes.
Jörg
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