From a33476cf0081e2752f17594362ca26b964e09b49 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: XeonSquared <redtailedairways@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2023 20:24:18 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] fix edge case where io.open(whatever):read() returns nil

---
 lib/libmtar.lua | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/libmtar.lua b/lib/libmtar.lua
index 4c40335..88d6b21 100644
--- a/lib/libmtar.lua
+++ b/lib/libmtar.lua
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ end
 function mtar.iter(stream) -- table -- function -- Given buffer *stream*, returns an iterator suitable for use with *for* that returns, for each iteration, the file name, a function to read from the file, and the length of the file.
  local remain = 0
  local function read(n)
-  local rb = stream:read(math.min(n,remain))
+  local rb = stream:read(math.min(n,remain)) or ""
   remain = remain - rb:len()
   return rb
  end