[COMPRESS-81] TarOutputStream can leave garbage at the end of the archive

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.1
• Assignee: Stefan Bodewig
• Reporter: Stefan Bodewig
• Created: 30/Jun/09 07:02
• Updated: 30/Jun/09 07:26
• Resolved: 30/Jun/09 07:26

Description

when the last block of the tar archive is incomplete it will contain two EOF blocks potentially followed by partial contents of the next-to-last block. This causes problems with some "bad" untar implementations that read past the EOF blocks.

https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=47421
https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=40195