theobisproject commented on a change in pull request #97:
URL: https://github.com/apache/commons-compress/pull/97#discussion_r419474533



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File path: 
src/main/java/org/apache/commons/compress/archivers/tar/TarArchiveEntry.java
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@@ -384,12 +430,49 @@ public TarArchiveEntry(final File file, final String 
fileName) {
         } else {
             this.mode = DEFAULT_FILE_MODE;
             this.linkFlag = LF_NORMAL;
-            this.size = file.length();
+            try {
+                this.size = Files.size(file);
+            } catch (IOException e) {
+                e.printStackTrace();

Review comment:
       That is exactly where I wan't the feedback how to best handle it for 
backward compatibility 😉 See the second part in the description




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