Re: [Bug-tar] Warning message when reading partial blocks from stdin.

[Paul Eggert]

Gunnar Ritter <address@hidden> writes:

>> Minor reasons, I suspect.  It reflects historical practice.
>
> Really? 7th edition tar checks the number of bytes returned after the
> first call to read() only.

I was referring to historical practice in creating files.  POSIX
specifies only the file format; it doesn't specify tar's behavior.