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| From: | Paul Eggert |
| Subject: | Re: Tar doesn't handle short reads |
| Date: | Wed, 5 Aug 2020 14:41:55 -0700 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.10.0 |
On 8/5/20 11:47 AM, Nikos Tsipinakis wrote:
Can you elaborate? I can't find a code path that loses the errno.
full_read reads a partial block and then tries to read again. The second read fails with errno == EIO. full_read then returns the number of bytes successfully read, and the caller ignores errno.
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