Re: Strange error-message from tar

[Paul Eggert]

> From: Rasmus Borup Hansen <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 15:09:04 +0200
> 
> Hi! I recently received the following error from tar:
> 
> tar: /home/m01/m01sbc/.netscape/preferences.js: File shrank by 0 bytes; 
> padding with zeros
> 
> How can something shrink by 0 bytes?

Thanks for reporting that bug.  It appears to be a bug in the GNU tar
code that calculates the number for the error message.  If I'm right,
your input file actually did shrink while tar was reading it, but tar
miscalculated the number of bytes that it shrunk by.  I'll fix it in
the next test version.