patch: unzip succeeds with CRC errors

[Rob Landley]

On Tuesday 28 March 2006 2:47 pm, Paul Fox wrote:
>  > busybox tar behaves like busybox unzip did -- it reports the error,
>  > and exits successfully.  having just fixed this in unzip, i'll take
>  > a look at tar.
>
> i looked, and i can say that i definitely don't have time.  the
> layering is deeper than it was with unzip, and the retesting more
> time-consuming.  someone else can handle this one.
>
> paul

This looks like a job for Glenn McGrath!

Paul: could you explain to Glenn what you want to do to tar?  (And anything 
you didn't do to unzip that you still want to do?)  He wrote the current 
archiving library code, and actually seems to understand it. :)

Rob
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