Re: [Bug-tar] Tar short read

[Paul Eggert]

On 09/28/11 00:15, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> That said, looking more closely at the rest of the code, I see that
> a function called full_rw() already exists that calls safe_rw()

Yes, a better fix is for tar to use gnulib's full-read module.
That's already on my list of things to do.  As we've
mentioned, though, it's not high priority.

Such a change would be trivial,
except that one must carefully think through all replacements of
safe_read and full_read and decide whether full_read is really
appropriate.  When this part of tar was written, I already considered
this issue and decided that safe_read was better, but I've forgotten
all the pros and cons and need to go back and re-derive them.