[issue36596] tarfile module considers anything starting with 512 bytes of zero bytes to be a valid tar file

[Jeffrey Kintscher]

Jeffrey Kintscher <websurfer at surf2c.net> added the comment:

I recommend closing this issue since the behavior is the same as the BSD and GNU tar utilities.

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type:  -> behavior

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