Re: star-1.5a64 aborts on reading archives with _small_ garbage tails

[email protected] wrote:

> Hi Joerg,
>
> i encounter problems with reading star archives after
> having added small amounts of trailing garbage to them.
> With tails of more than 1 kB it seems to be ok.
>
>
>   $ star -version
>   star: star 1.5a64 (i686-pc-linux-gnu)
> (so if this is solved in star-1.5a65pre, sorry)
>
> The archive got written with (command logged by set -x)
>   + star -c list=-
>   star: 15 blocks + 0 bytes (total of 153600 bytes = 150.00k).
>
> and i added my personal garbage tail
>   Note: cd_backup_planer added 320 bytes of checksum padding
>
> On trying to read the table of content
>   $ star -t -v </tmp/test2.star
> i get _half_ my content list and then star aborts
>   ...
>       0 lrwxrwxrwx  root/root Jun 12 20:40 2004 lenghty_address
>   star: Error reading '-' size (320) too small.
>   star: 15 blocks + 0 bytes (total of 153600 bytes = 150.00k).

This is not a bug but intended behavior on a missusage.

A valid TAR archive is always a multiple of 512 bytes.

Jörg

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