5.3-RC2 tar breaks operation with "(null)"

[Kris Kennaway]

On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 04:51:01PM +0000, Andrew Sinclair wrote:

> <>I checked the changelog for that. There is a minor change to its 
> handling of failed writes to the archive, which is quite the opposite of 
> what I am trying to do. My disc is unsuprisingly screwed and the 
> drive/filesystem returns zero filled blocks where it fails to read. I 
> managed to work around it with dd and gtar:
> 
>    dd if=/dvdrom/20041116.tgz of=/home/shared/mec/20041116.tgz
>    gtar --ignore-zero --ignore-failed-read -xvf 
> /home/shared/mec/20041116.tgz
> 
> So a PPT and a PNG were garbled. No big deal. Since bsdtar is now the 
> default Tape ARchiver, shouldn't it include the options of its 
> predecessor? I would assert --ignore-zero on plain files and allow 
> --ignore-failed-read at least.

You can (and should) discuss this with the author, but bsdtar isn't
currently intended to be a 100% replacement for gtar, particularly for
the more obscure options.  If you need gtar, you can always use it
instead.

Kris
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