New submission from Michael Richardson <m...@sandelman.ca>:
The simplest tarcopy program seems to result in output that GNU tar, bsdtar, and even Emacs tar-mode is unable to correctly process. It appears that the resulting tar file is missing files, but examination of the raw output shows they might be there, but just corrupt. GNU tar actually complains while reading the file. https://github.com/mcr/python3-tar-copy-failure has a test case. Here is the stupid code to reproduce it: import tarfile out = tarfile.open(name="./t2.tar", mode="w", format=tarfile.PAX_FORMAT) with tarfile.open("./t1.tar") as tar: for file in tar.getmembers(): print (file.name) out.addfile(file) out.close() This has been confirmed on python 3.6.9 (Ubuntu 18.04 LTS), and python 3.7.3 (Devuan Beowulf). It seems to omit different files on 32-bit and 64-bit systems. ---------- components: Library (Lib) messages: 371045 nosy: mcr314 priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: tarfile creates output that appears to omit files type: behavior versions: Python 3.6 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue40914> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
