[BusyBox] tar stdin problems

[Glenn McGrath]

On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 14:09:12 +0200
Michael Sternberg <michaels at boscom.com> wrote:

> 
> Last CVS version of busybox (2002.11.12-10:51+0000)
> 
> ~> tar zxvf test.tar.gz
> first.file
> second.file
> third.file
> tar: Short read
> 
> ~> gunzip -c test.tar.gz | tar xv
> first.file
> second.file
> third.file
> tar: Short read
> 
> ~> gunzip test.tar.gz && tar xvf test.tar
> ~> echo $?


This should be working now, i made the buffer smaller and made the file
copying route tolerate short reads as we are looping around it anyway.

Its untested over a tape drive.



Glenn