Motivations:
* Use of strconv.ParseInt does not properly treat integers as 64bit,
preventing this function from working properly on 32bit machines.
* Use of io.ReadFull does not properly detect truncated streams
when the file suddenly ends on a block boundary.
* The function blindly trusts user input for numEntries and allocates
memory accordingly.
* The function does not validate that numEntries is not negative,
allowing a malicious sparse file to cause a panic during make.
In general, this function was overly complicated for what it was
accomplishing and it was hard to reason that it was free from
bounds errors. Instead, it has been rewritten and relies on
bytes.Buffer.ReadString to do the main work. So long as invariants
about the number of '\n' in the buffer are maintained, it is much
easier to see why this approach is correct.