Re: [Bug-tar] infinite loop in sparse_dump_region()

[François Ouellet]

2014-03-16 17:55 GMT-04:00 Pavel Raiskup <praiskup@redhat.com>:

thanks for clear report!  You can try the attached patch if you wanted (but it
has the same effects as yours one, just the message is little bit different).
Reproducer:

  $ truncate -s 10M file
  $ tar cSf archive file
  $ truncate -s 5M file
  $ tar df archive

My simple patch did not fix this problem.  I haven't yet been able to reproduce my previous problem.  It doesn't happen every time.  I'll keep trying, from time to time.

Thanks,

François