From d437ecf75de2d6fdeb2aed6f45c4b3b16373389b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sergey Poznyakoff Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2023 21:35:30 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] Revert "Fix savannah bug #63567" Commit e89c7a45eb broke deletion from archives. The reported number of bytes read is rounded to the nearest record anyway, revert the commit and document the fact. Reported by Ed Santiago. See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2230127 * doc/tar.texi: Document the fact that --totals rounds up the number of bytes reads to the nearest record. * src/buffer.c: Revert changes. * tests/delete06.at: Fix expected status code and stderr. --- doc/tar.texi | 5 +++++ src/buffer.c | 3 +-- tests/delete06.at | 7 +++++-- 3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/tar.texi b/doc/tar.texi index d43b39e4..ee631137 100644 --- a/doc/tar.texi +++ b/doc/tar.texi @@ -4215,6 +4215,11 @@ Total bytes read: 7924664320 (7.4GiB, 95MiB/s) @end group @end smallexample +Notice, that since @command{tar} operates on @dfn{records}, the number +of bytes reported can be rounded up to the nearest full record. This +can happen, in particular, when the last record in the archive is +partial. @xref{Blocking}. + Finally, when deleting from an archive, the @option{--totals} option displays both numbers plus number of bytes removed from the archive: diff --git a/src/buffer.c b/src/buffer.c index 12a0579f..8a575f9a 100644 --- a/src/buffer.c +++ b/src/buffer.c @@ -987,8 +987,7 @@ short_read (size_t status) } record_end = record_start + (record_size - left) / BLOCKSIZE; - if (left == 0) - records_read++; + records_read++; } /* Flush the current buffer to/from the archive. */ diff --git a/tests/delete06.at b/tests/delete06.at index 9668a28c..c84ba20e 100644 --- a/tests/delete06.at +++ b/tests/delete06.at @@ -36,7 +36,10 @@ esac dd if=archive.tar of=trunc.tar bs=$size count=1 2>/dev/null tar --delete 'b/' -f trunc.tar ], -[0], -[],[],[],[],[gnu, pax]) +[2], +[], +[tar: lseek: trunc.tar: Value too large for defined data type +tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors +],[],[],[gnu, pax]) AT_CLEANUP -- 2.41.0