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List:       busybox
Subject:    Re: shouldn't tar quit at end of archive?
From:       Rich Felker <dalias () aerifal ! cx>
Date:       2006-03-31 22:45:44
Message-ID: 20060331224544.GN10840 () brightrain ! aerifal ! cx
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On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 10:33:36AM +1200, Glenn L. McGrath wrote:
> Currently open_transformer() expects the decomrpession process to exit
> normally, if the decompressor couldnt finish writing its data into the
> pipe there are 2 problems
> 1) we would have to kill the process ourselves.
> 2) the decompressor wouldnt see the checksum or bytecount as tar has
> not allowed it finish decompressing.

Solution seems simple to me: loop reading junk if and only if the
input is a decompressor. Otherwise just exit.

Rich


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