Re: [Bug-tar] ftruncate vfat

[Joerg Schilling]

Peter Vrabec <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi, 
>
> extracting a sparse file to a filesystem like vfat that does not
> support sparse files results in an incomplete output file.
>
> See:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=179507
>
> What do you think about attached patch?

Isn't this a work around for a OS bug?

Jörg

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