> From: owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org On Behalf Of jb-open...@wisemo.com > Sent: Thursday, 26 April, 2012 19:37
> On 26-04-2012 15:05, Thomas J. Hruska wrote: > > ... This archive under 7-Zip 9.20 (latest > > stable) displays a "There are no trailing zero-filled records" > > error dialog but then proceeds to work just fine. ... > This is not limited to 7-Zip, see also the post by Mr. Bergeron > of IBM. > I didn't see that one, but a few more data points: Ancient Solaris (5.)8 says "tar: read error: unexpected EOF" but has in fact extracted or listed last file (VMS/WISHLIST.TXT) okay. Ancient AIX 4.3 goes into an apparently infinite loop on the last 8 files (!) but seems to have extracted/listed okay. Of the downloads I have at hand (about a year), the others with less than 2x512 zero at the end are 0.9.8q and 1.0.0-beta4 . 0.9.8q produces same symptoms but 1.0.0-beta4 does not. Blech. WinZip 12 is happy. As is gnu tar 1.13.19 1.14 1.15.1. I'm not startled by that; gnu programs in general usually tolerate slight nonstandardness, and often not-so-slight. This may be exchange for the nonstandardness they create. > I have looked closer at the tar.gz file (my download matches the > checksums and digital signature from Dr. Henson), and the file > is not valid according to the tar file format specifications that > I have looked at. > > According to the basic tar specification, each file is prefixed by > a 512 byte header with filename, size etc. and zero padded to a > multiple of 512 bytes, and the last file is followed by at least > 2x512 bytes of all-zero bytes to indicate end of file. ... > But the tar file inside the gzip file "openssl-1.0.1b.tar.gz" > lacks those last 1024 bytes of zeroes. ... ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org
