On Thursday 28 July 2011 19:29, Ian Wienand wrote: > Hi, > > I recently came across a tar file created by an older version of > Python that had a file-size set for a hardlink. Currently busybox > assumes the file-size is zero but doesn't really check, so > consequently tar skipped ahead and thought the rest of the file was > corrupt. > > This is a python bug (a bit of searching found [1]), but as they say > the nice thing about standards is that there are so many choose from. > It appears it is reasonable to just always set this to zero, and then > you can handle these buggy files if need be.
I applied your fix, thanks! -- vda _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
