Re: [Bug-tar] Message error: Skipping to next header

[Joerg Schilling]

>From: Luca Fibbi <address@hidden>

>I have obtained the following messages of error:

>tar: Skipping to next header
>tar: Error exit delayed form previous errors

>when I extract or list an tar archive using the version 1.14 with the
>format posix and the option -T. For example the following command line:

>tar -x --format=posix -f ./prova.tar -T list.txt

>The error messages disappear if, in the function void skip_member (void)
>(file list.c), I add the following line:

> set_next_block_after (current_header);
> decode_header (current_header, &current_stat_info, &current_format, 1);
><---- NEW LINE

> assign_string (&save_name, current_stat_info.file_name);

Doe you like to tell that adding the line:

decode_header (current_header, &current_stat_info, &current_format, 1);

would gelp?

BTW: I did report this bug in 1994.........

Jörg

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