Re: [Bug-tar] 'BZh[1-9]' file in v7 format archive confuses GNU tar

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Sergey Poznyakoff <address@hidden> ha escrit:

> Before attempting compression format identification, tar tests if
> the first block read is a valid tar header block. However, the
> test itself is stricter than necessary. The following patch should
> fix this:

This, however, will mistakingly qualify some compressed archives as
uncompressed (see commit 1847ec67cec36a17354115374954fea211d1f0da),
so definitely the test must be more sophisticated.

Regards,
Sergey