From 6fc92a506ab3c490a4dc028334c908f19c0d0806 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Glenn L McGrath Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 03:23:10 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Fail silently on failure to read tar header, its unfortunate that many tar implementations must be adding unwanted crap to the end of their archives. It makes error reporting here more trouble than its worth --- libbb/unarchive.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/libbb/unarchive.c b/libbb/unarchive.c index 78260d2d6..adc5d8d6e 100644 --- a/libbb/unarchive.c +++ b/libbb/unarchive.c @@ -492,7 +492,9 @@ file_header_t *get_header_tar(FILE *tar_stream) } if (fread(tar.raw, 1, 512, tar_stream) != 512) { - error_msg("Couldnt read header"); + /* Unfortunatly its common for tar files to have all sorts of + * trailing garbage, fail silently */ +// error_msg("Couldnt read header"); return(NULL); } archive_offset += 512; -- 2.25.1