Before filing a bug, please check whether it has been fixed since
the latest release: run "hg pull -u" and retry what you did to
reproduce the problem.  Thanks.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
Compile and run the attached program (it will create files "/tmp/foo.txt"
and "/tmp/foo.tar").

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
It should print "Read 0 bytes" and exit. Instead it hangs forever on the
line "data, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(tr)"

What is your $GOOS?  $GOARCH?

linux 386

Which revision are you using?  (hg identify)

683ed10f7832 tip

Please provide any additional information below.

This does work in place of ioutil.ReadAll(tr):

header, err := tr.Next()
data = make([]byte, header.Size)
n, err2 := io.ReadFull(tr, data)

Attachments:

1. tarread.go (741 bytes)