The following reply was made to PR bin/34265; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: dieter roelants <dieter.NetBSD@pandora.be>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: bin/34265: pax truncates archive when appending fails.
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 13:57:53 +0200

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 And now in real clear text... (I hope)
 
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 Index: ar_subs.c
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 RCS file: /cvsroot/src/bin/pax/ar_subs.c,v
 retrieving revision 1.49
 diff -u -r1.49 ar_subs.c
 --- ar_subs.c	11 Feb 2006 11:04:57 -0000	1.49
 +++ ar_subs.c	24 Aug 2006 10:18:59 -0000
 @@ -867,7 +867,18 @@
  	/*
  	 * go to the writing phase to add the new members
  	 */
 -	return wr_archive(arcn, 1);
 +	res =3D wr_archive(arcn, 1);
 +	if (res =3D=3D 1) {
 +		/*
 +		 * wr_archive failed in some way, but before any files were
 +		 * added. These are the only steps needed to cleanup (and
 +		 * not truncate the archive).
 +		 */
 +		wr_fin();
 +		(void)sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, &s_mask, (sigset_t *)NULL);
 +		ar_close();
 +	}
 +	return res;
  }
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  /*
 
 
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