[issue5068] tarfile loops forever on broken input

Lars Gustäbel added the comment: I just checked in a fix for the problem, r70523-70527. Thank you very much for your report. -- resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed versions: +Python 2.5 ___ Python tracker

[issue5068] tarfile loops forever on broken input

Lars Gustäbel added the comment: Thanks for the report. The problem is in fact easy to reproduce. _BZ2Proxy hangs if it is passed a file object with either no data or with a partial bzipped file. For example try: tarfile.open(mode="r:bz2", fileobj=StringIO.StringIO()) I will create a decent fi

[issue5068] tarfile loops forever on broken input

Changes by Lars Gustäbel : -- assignee: -> lars.gustaebel nosy: +lars.gustaebel ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing li

[issue5068] tarfile loops forever on broken input

New submission from Maciek Fijalkowski : I have troubles actually finding such a file, but I encountered it at least once (file is gone by now though). The lines in question are for bz2 compression: in _BZ2Proxy.read: try: raw = self.fileobj.read(self.blocksize)