Bug 135168 – tar give waring when reading from a pipe

Bug 135168 - tar give waring when reading from a pipe

Summary:	tar give waring when reading from a pipe

Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME

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Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	tar (Show other bugs)
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Version:	4.0
Hardware:	i686 Linux

Priority	medium Severity low
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Assigned To:	Peter Vrabec
QA Contact:	Ben Levenson
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Reported:	2004-10-09 13:48 EDT by Fred Romelfanger
Modified:	2007-11-30 17:07 EST (History)
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Last Closed:	2004-11-19 08:21:22 EST
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Description Fred Romelfanger 2004-10-09 13:48:23 EDT

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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.

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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 04:48:03 EDT

what's your Version & Release of tar, gzip.

Comment 2 Fred Romelfanger 2004-10-15 15:25:06 EDT

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 07:36:43 EDT

I can't reproduce this error. 
Try upgrade tar to tar-1.14-4.

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