[BusyBox-cvs] [BusyBox 0000347]: tar: Decompression failed returns exit status 0 even error happened

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A NOTE has been added to this issue. 
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http://busybox.net/bugs/view.php?id=347 
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Reported By:                robang74
Assigned To:                BusyBox
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Project:                    BusyBox
Issue ID:                   347
Category:                   Standards Compliance
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   minor
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     assigned
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Date Submitted:             07-21-2005 14:57 PDT
Last Modified:              07-21-2005 15:00 PDT
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Summary:                    tar: Decompression failed returns exit status 0 even
error happened
Description: 
BEFORE (original 1.00 on the embbedded device):

root at embeslax:~# cd /tmp
root at embeslax:/tmp# dd if=/dev/zero of=pippo.tar.bz2 bs=1k count=1
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
root at embeslax:/tmp# tar xjf pippo.tar.bz2; echo $?
tar: Decompression failed
0

AFTER (patched on my workstation): 

bash-2.05b# dd if=/dev/zero of=pippo.tar.bz2 bs=1k count=1
0+0 records in
0+0 records out
bash-2.05b# _install/bin/tar xjf pippo.tar.bz2; echo $?
tar: Decompression failed
255

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 robang74 - 07-21-05 15:00  
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This patch affects rpm too. 

Issue History 
Date Modified   Username       Field                    Change               
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07-21-05 14:57  robang74       New Issue                                    
07-21-05 14:57  robang74       Status                   new => assigned     
07-21-05 14:57  robang74       Assigned To               => BusyBox         
07-21-05 14:57  robang74       File Added: busybox-1.00_raf.diff                
   
07-21-05 15:00  robang74       Note Added: 0000337                          
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