Thanks for the report, however this is not reproducible on my GNU/Linux box.
On Tuesday 09 of December 2014 12:07:02 ROMANO MASPERO wrote: > I've incurred in a bug in GNU tar, happening at least from version 1.17 > and still present in current version 1.28. Have you tried to build git HEAD version of tar? That can be also more helpful if you plan to debug ... > The issue is: when using option "--wildcards" and the archive contains > more than 255 files, some files are silentkly skipped from commands such > as listing (-t) and extraction (-x). Would you be able to use the debugger and see, where the problem actually is? You could start at 'read_and' function and than step over 'decode_header' and see why the process skips 'do_something()' call. > [...] > it can be seen that files n. 256, 512 and 768 are missing. It can not be seen here in this bugreport, but I hope we can trust you :). > I'm working on Solaris SPARC 5.9; tar was compiled from sources with Sun > C compiler 5.8. I am unable to test this architecture, sorry. Your help would be more than welcome. Pavel
