tar compression autodetect bug in 1.11.0
Kim B. Heino
Kim.Heino at bluegiga.com
Wed Jul 9 15:25:56 UTC 2008
Hi,
Tar file compression autodetect does not work with very small files.
See below:
[root at ysi4 root]$ echo foo > foo
[root at ysi4 root]$ tar cjf foo.tar.bz2 foo
[root at ysi4 root]$ tar xf foo.tar.bz2
tar: short read
[root at ysi4 root]$ echo $?
1
[root at ysi4 root]$ tar xjf foo.tar.bz2
[root at ysi4 root]$ echo $?
0
[root at ysi4 root]$ ls -la foo.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 111 Jul 9 18:16 foo.tar.bz2
With large files it works fine. I'm using BusyBox 1.11.0.
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