Hi, Andrew!
> > > > 4) Compressed tarballs produced by "tar cz" with older versions of GNU tar
> > > > (i.e. those with padding at the end) cannot be opened by pressing Enter
> > > > ("doesn't look like a tar archive")
> > >
> > > Can someone provide an example tarball?
> >
> > Attached (test.tgz)
>
> This problem is in vfs/sfs.c/vfmake().
> Now it calls my_system and returns -1 if
> return code of my_system is not 0.
>
> Well, gzip returns 2 for this test.tgz:
However, it returns 0 with the "-f" (force) flag:
>
> test.tgz: decompression OK, trailing garbage ignored
Not with gzip-1.3. In fact, debugging shows that mc never enters vfmake()
and never runs gzip. The problem is with is_gunzipable() in src/util.c.
It reads the uncompressed size at the end, and test.tgz has zeroes there.
--
Regards,
Pavel Roskin
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