Re: [Bug-tar] bug in gtar 1.13.25 with deep directory structure

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Josef G. Bauer <address@hidden> wrote:

> tar 1.15.1 gives the message 'tar: A lone zero block at 172142' but
> stops extracting, too. Using the '-i' option the extraction is not
> stopped but I am not sure whether the result is 100% correct. The
> message 'tar: Skipping to next header' is given twice.

This all indicates that the archive is malformed.

> Until now I did not test this when creating the achieve with tar
> 1.15.1.

Please do test it.

Regards,
Sergey