Bug 135168 - tar give waring when reading from a pipe
Summary: tar give waring when reading from a pipe
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Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification: Red Hat
Component: tar
Version: 4.0
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Peter Vrabec
QA Contact: Ben Levenson
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-10-09 17:48 UTC by Fred Romelfanger
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2004-11-19 13:21:22 UTC
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Description Fred Romelfanger 2004-10-09 17:48:23 UTC 
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Description of problem:
When piping the output from zcat into tar I regularily get what
appears to be an error about a short read.  I didn't get these
with WS3 or core2.  I was wondering if it might just be a debug
message that was left behind in the code.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. use zcat on a compressed tar file and pipe to tar -tf - or -xf -
2.
3.
    

Actual Results:  zcat linux* | tar -tf -
./
./COMMON.TAR
./INSTALL
./README
./LICREAD.TXT
./LINUXRDR.TAR
tar: Read 8192 bytes from -

Expected Results:  zcat linux* | tar -tf -
./
./COMMON.TAR
./INSTALL
./README
./LICREAD.TXT
./LINUXRDR.TAR


Additional info:
Comment 1 Peter Vrabec 2004-10-15 08:48:03 UTC 
what's your Version & Release of tar, gzip.
Comment 2 Fred Romelfanger 2004-10-15 19:25:06 UTC 
The ones that come with RHEL 4.0 beta:
tar-1.14-2
gzip-1.3.3-13
Comment 3 Peter Vrabec 2004-10-18 11:36:43 UTC 
I can't reproduce this error. 
Try upgrade tar to tar-1.14-4.
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