Bug 31984 - Tar task seems to be inserting "lone zero blocks"
Summary: Tar task seems to be inserting "lone zero blocks"
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 28776
Alias: None
Product: Ant
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Core tasks (show other bugs)
Version: 1.1
Hardware: All All
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ant Notifications List
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Reported: 2004-10-30 16:41 UTC by Frank Griffin
Modified: 2008-02-22 12:18 UTC (History)
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Description Frank Griffin 2004-10-30 16:41:11 UTC 
I noticed that the GNU tar 1.14 was producing warnings about "lone zero block
found" when unpacking certain packages from the web.  I've experienced this with
the 2.6.2 Xerces-J-bin, and also with the 4.0.0 JBoss source package.

I asked the JBoss people, and they said they created the archives with Ant
1.6.2, and I assume that Xerces is built with Ant.  So either
jboss-4.0.0-src.tar.bz2 or Xerces-J-bin.2.6.2.tar.gz can be considered a
reproducible case for this.

The warning out of GNU tar is just that.  I checked the source code, and the two
paths of execution are identical except for issuing the message.  But clearly
the GNU code thinks the block shouldn't be there.
Comment 1 Peter Reilly 2004-11-01 09:11:31 UTC 
This is a dup of 28776.
Can someone point to a specification of a tar file?

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 28776 ***