Re: GNU tar bug reading multi-volumes from a pipe

[Vincent Stemen]

On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 12:49:32AM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote:
> > From: Vincent Stemen <address@hidden>
> > Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 21:01:19 -0600
> > 
> > http://www.tzi.de/~brederek/tar-bugfix/index.html
> 
> Thanks for the URL.
> 
> > His patch fixes the initial problem of reading the split file
> > incorrectly but, unfortunately in my tests, it generates another
> > bug, causing it to not continue reading past the split file and read
> > the rest of the second volume.  However, it seems to be a step in the
> > right direction and may be useful in completing a fix.
> 
> Yes, that's the hold-up; we don't have a complete fix yet, and I'm
> reluctant to install a change that doesn't really solve the problem.
> 
> Can you two write a complete fix?  I'm pressed for time.  Ideally the
> fix would be relative to the latest test release, in
> <ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/tar/>.

Thanks for the reply.  If you don't have the time then I am going try
to work around it for now in bu, using extra file space to unpack the
CD archives, rather than doing it as a stream, to at least get it
functional.  I'm pretty pressed for time also.  Later, if nobody has
gotten to it, I will try to make the time to take a closer look at
Jan's patch and see if I can finish fixing it.

If one of you guy's fix it before I can get to it, I would appreciate
it very much if you email me to let me know so I don't end up
duplicating your work.  Jan, if you do any further work on it, I will
be glad to do additional testing before any more patches are posted.

Regards.
Vincent