Re: Tar doesn't handle short reads

[Paul Eggert]

On 8/4/20 4:48 PM, Nikos Tsipinakis wrote:
> Given the hesitation to fstat in order to remove the O_NONBLOCK flag, are there
> any objections to applying the patches sent in the original email? i.e. re-call
> read until the full file has been read.

Simply switching from safe_read to full_read would lose an errno value if 
there's an I/O error, so that patch alone wouldn't suffice for GNU 'tar'.