What about this one?
On Thu, 02 Feb 2006 18:31:37 EET
"Sergey Poznyakoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Peter Vrabec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > extracting a sparse file to a filesystem like vfat that does not
> > support sparse files results in an incomplete output file.
>
> Thanks for reporting.
>
> > What do you think about attached patch?
>
> I think that, while the issue should certainly be solved, the patch
> addresses it the wrong way. It should be the responsibility of
> sys_truncate to handle this case.
>
> Regards,
> Sergey
--- tar-1.15.1/src/system.c.vfatTruncate 2004-09-06 07:31:00.000000000 -0400
+++ tar-1.15.1/src/system.c 2006-02-03 14:40:51.000000000 -0500
@@ -272,8 +272,25 @@
int
sys_truncate (int fd)
{
+ struct stat st;
off_t pos = lseek (fd, (off_t) 0, SEEK_CUR);
- return pos < 0 ? -1 : ftruncate (fd, pos);
+
+ if ( pos < 0)
+ return -1;
+
+ if ( ftruncate (fd, pos) != 0 ) {
+ /* wrapper around ftruncate:
+ * ftruncate may fail to grow the size of a file with some OS and filesystem
+ * combinations. Linux and vfat/fat is one example. If this is the case do
+ * a write to grow the file to the desired length.
+ */
+ if( (fstat( fd, &st ) == -1) ||
+ (st.st_size >= pos) ||
+ (lseek( fd, pos - 1, SEEK_SET) == (off_t)-1) ||
+ (write( fd, "\0", 1) == -1) )
+ return -1;
+ }
+ return 0;
}
/* Return nonzero if NAME is the name of a regular file, or if the file
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