write_trailer() writes the last 10k (a full block) of the tar archive.
write_if_needed() writes out a block *if* it is full and then sets
the offset to 0. In nine out of ten cases the messed up write_trailer()
function didn't manage to fill the block thus not writing anything at
all, truncating the archive. I was "lucky" to hit the other case and so
my testing ran OK.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
write_if_needed();
get_record();
write_if_needed();
- if (offset) {
+ while (offset) {
get_record();
write_if_needed();
}