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diff --git a/archival/libarchive/seek_by_read.c b/archival/libarchive/seek_by_read.c
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+/* vi: set sw=4 ts=4: */
+/*
+ * Licensed under GPLv2 or later, see file LICENSE in this source tree.
+ */
+
+#include "libbb.h"
+#include "archive.h"
+
+/*  If we are reading through a pipe, or from stdin then we can't lseek,
+ *  we must read and discard the data to skip over it.
+ */
+void FAST_FUNC seek_by_read(int fd, off_t amount)
+{
+	if (amount)
+		bb_copyfd_exact_size(fd, -1, amount);
+}