On 2023-02-27, KUNES Michael wrote:
> We are using tar as part of our software to prepare data sent to
> devices that use tar or tgz format for receiving e.g.: CSV,
> XML,... files
Then I'd strongly recommend you look into replacing it with Commons
Commpress at one point in time. The libary does support some POSIX
tricks Ant's codebase doesn't support and they've added a TarFile class
for random access (much like ZipFile) that would be out of scope for
Ant.
Still.
> 1) I agree that this NPE might not occur under normal
> circumstances. Therefore, I am quite sure that the finding is due to
> our static code analysis tool remarks and just some
> beautification. But danger to introduce problems is quite low.
Do you want to prepare a formal bug report and patch - or a github pull
request? Or should I just go ahead and add a null check myself? Either
way is fine with me.
> 2) we did this fix some 10-15 years ago since we had some problem with
> one of our embedded devices that is not very fault-tolerant. But to be
> true, that's all I remember. Big sorry!
No problem at all. It would be good if you could give the updated Ant
codebase with Arrays.fill a try to verify this really fixes the problem
for you as well.
Many thanks
Stefan
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