tar: write: Broken pi

[Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia]

The command line correctly includes the 'z' option for gunzip. Why do
you say "no gunzip argument" ?

Guillermo

2015-12-21 23:44 GMT+01:00 Marcus Diniz <mdiniz at gmail.com>:
> I was wondering, should this be considered a bug?
>
> It's clear that tar is being called with no gunzip argument, and then it's
> trying to identify the magic number to continue if true for tar file.
>
> Since busybox is supposed to be small and fast, is this kind of error
> supposed to get handled?
>
> Marcus Diniz
>
> On Dec 21, 2015 20:12, "Heinrich Schuchardt" <xypron.glpk at gmx.de> wrote:
>>
>> OpenWRT ChaosCalmer uses busybox 1.23.2.
>>
>> For many tar.gz files I receive errors like:
>>
>> user at MR3020:~/src$ wget http://tukaani.org/xz/xz-5.2.2.tar.gz
>> user at MR3020:~/src$ tar -xzf xz-5.2.2.tar.gz
>> tar: invalid tar magic
>> user at MR3020:~/src$ tar: write: Broken pipe
>>
>> GNU tar on Debian Jessie amd64 has no problem with the same file.
>>
>> Best regards
>>
>> Heinrich Schuchardt
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