[issue24259] tar.extractall() does not recognize unexpected EOF

[Martin Panter]

Martin Panter added the comment:

I might be able to make a patch, but what should the patch do exactly?

* Raise an exception as soon as something wrong is found
* Defer exceptions until close() is called, to allow partial data recovery
* Add some sort of defects API that you can optionally inspect, like the email message library has
* A new tarfile.open(strict=True) mode

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components: +Library (Lib)
nosy: +vadmium
type:  -> enhancement

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