patch: unzip succeeds with CRC errors

[Glenn L. McGrath]

On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 16:40:44 -0500
Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:

> 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. :)

Yea, i can have a look at it, off the top of my head i think
tar/ar/cpio will all fail straight away if the headers field checks
fail.

I guess the thinking was that if the headers get out of alignment then
it would be pretty compplex thrying to align them again.


Glenn