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Author guettli
Recipients Thomas Güttler, ethan.furman, guettli, lars.gustaebel, martin.panter
Date 2015-05-28.08:41:20
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Message-id <1432802480.25.0.508468192098.issue24259@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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I uploaded a broken tar for testing:

tguettler@aptguettler:~/tmp
===> LANG=C tar -xf tar_which_is_cut.tar
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

tguettler@aptguettler:~/tmp
===> python
Python 2.7.6 (default, Mar 22 2014, 22:59:56) 
[GCC 4.8.2] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import tarfile
>>> tarfile.TarFile('tar_which_is_cut.tar', errorlevel=2).extractall()
>>> 
(Sad, no error)
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2015-05-28 08:41:20guettlisetrecipients: + guettli, lars.gustaebel, ethan.furman, martin.panter, Thomas Güttler
2015-05-28 08:41:20guettlisetmessageid: <1432802480.25.0.508468192098.issue24259@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2015-05-28 08:41:20guettlilinkissue24259 messages
2015-05-28 08:41:20guettlicreate