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-rw-r--r--archival/libunarchive/get_header_tar.c9
-rw-r--r--shell/README4
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/archival/libunarchive/get_header_tar.c b/archival/libunarchive/get_header_tar.c
index 7493d910e..5a1f5948f 100644
--- a/archival/libunarchive/get_header_tar.c
+++ b/archival/libunarchive/get_header_tar.c
@@ -90,15 +90,22 @@ char get_header_tar(archive_handle_t *archive_handle)
again_after_align:
+#if ENABLE_DESKTOP
i = full_read(archive_handle->src_fd, &tar, 512);
/* if GNU tar sees EOF in above read, it says:
* "tar: A lone zero block at N", where N = kilobyte
* where EOF was met (not EOF block, actual EOF!),
- * and tar will exit with error code 0! Mimic exit(0): */
+ * and tar will exit with error code 0.
+ * We will mimic exit(0), although we will not mimic
+ * the message and we don't check whether we indeed
+ * saw zero block directly before this. */
if (i == 0)
xfunc_error_retval = 0;
if (i != 512)
bb_error_msg_and_die("short read");
+#else
+ xread(archive_handle->src_fd, &tar, 512);
+#endif
archive_handle->offset += 512;
/* If there is no filename its an empty header */
diff --git a/shell/README b/shell/README
index f78ed9d18..17e2cb802 100644
--- a/shell/README
+++ b/shell/README
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
Various bits of what is known about busybox shells, in no particular order.
+2008-02-14
+ash: does not restore tty pgrp if killed by HUP. Symptom: Midnigth Commander
+is backgrounded if you started ash under it, and then killed it with HUP.
+
2007-11-23
hush: fixed bogus glob handling; fixed exec <"$1"; added test and echo builtins