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

[Gunnar Ritter]

Joerg Schilling <address@hidden> wrote:

> Correct and the problem with the bad cpio archives from inside rpms
> is related to the fact that an incompletely filled 512 byte buffer
> contains valid and needed data. This is something completely different
> that the case you test with your commands above.

As I said, discuss this at the Austin Group if you think there is
a problem. The cpio implementations of GNU, SVR4 etc. and mine work
fine with this, and it is correct according to my interpretation
of the POSIX.1 cpio format specification, so I see no reason to
complain. (Particularly not on the GNU bug-tar mailing list.)

        Gunnar