[issue7357] tarfile doesn't detect disk full error on extraction

Lars Gustäbel l...@gustaebel.de added the comment: I changed the default value for the errorlevel argument, so that fatal errors are now raised as regular exceptions by default (trunk: r76780, py3k: r76782). Thank you very much for bringing up this issue. -- resolution: - accepted

[issue7357] tarfile doesn't detect disk full error on extraction

Eli Venter even...@jcvi.org added the comment: Yes, thanks errorlevel works as expected, and errors are correctly generated. It's quite unintuitive to ignore fatal errors by default however. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org

[issue7357] tarfile doesn't detect disk full error on extraction

New submission from Eli Venter even...@jcvi.org: tarfile doesn't seem to return any error or raise any exception when an extraction fills up the disk, making it hard to use safely. Both extractall and extract suffer from this problem. I'm using CentOS 5.2 and python 2.6.2. --

[issue7357] tarfile doesn't detect disk full error on extraction

Lars Gustäbel l...@gustaebel.de added the comment: The TarFile constructor (as well as tarfile.open) takes an errorlevel keyword argument. See http://docs.python.org/dev/library/tarfile.html#tarfile-objects I quote: If errorlevel is 0, all errors are ignored when using TarFile.extract().