[issue39017] Infinite loop in the tarfile module

[Ben Caller]

Ben Caller <bcaller at gmail.com> added the comment:

A smaller bug: If instead of 0 you use a large number (> 2^63) e.g. 9999999999999999999 you get `OverflowError: Python int too large to convert to C ssize_t` rather than the expected `tarfile.ReadError` regardless of errorlevel.

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