Re: Tar doesn't handle short reads

[Nikos Tsipinakis]

Seems like this thread has stalled, thanks Dominique for responding to this.
I wasn't expecting to find the 9p maintainer on this list and the resulting
conversation really helped me understand the nuances of the issue much better.

On 30/07, Paul Eggert wrote:
> > Well; I don't know. I'm open to discussion on how to improve 9p as well
> > in parallel, but I think the safe approach would be to work on both.
> 
> Yes, probably 'tar' should be modified to deal with this glitch, if someone
> gets the time to do that.

Given the hesitation to fstat in order to remove the O_NONBLOCK flag, are there
any objections to applying the patches sent in the original email? i.e. re-call
read until the full file has been read.

- Nikos