Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 17:54:04 -0500 From: Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@freebsd.org> To: Steven Hartland <killing@multiplay.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bsdtar / libarchive bug? Message-ID: <20051208225404.GF98704@green.homeunix.org> In-Reply-To: <00c701c5fc1c$e6db4220$b3db87d4@multiplay.co.uk> References: <00c701c5fc1c$e6db4220$b3db87d4@multiplay.co.uk>
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On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 05:29:06PM -0000, Steven Hartland wrote:
> It seems bsdtar can create files it cant read. i.e. it will happily create
> empty tar.gz files but when it comes to read them the following error
> is output:
> tar: Unrecognized archive format: Inappropriate file type or format
>
> Having a look at libarchive shows the following code:
> /* An empty archive is a serious error. */
> if (bytes_read == 0) {
> archive_set_error(a, ARCHIVE_ERRNO_FILE_FORMAT,
> "Empty input file");
> return (ARCHIVE_FATAL);
> }
>
> Which is where I expect the issue is, why would an empty archive
> be fatal? I can see any reason for this, yes its strange but there's
> nothing fatal about it imo.
I don't think it will "happily create empty tar.gz files", even where
by empty you mean the tar itself inside of the gz.
{"/home/green" green@green}$ tar cfv x.tar
tar: no files or directories specified
{"/home/green" green@green}$ tar cfvz x.tar.gz
tar: no files or directories specified
{"/home/green" green@green}$ ls -l x.ta*
ls: x.ta*: No such file or directory
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