Thank you! FYI, there's a typo in 0003 - "concatenating" instead of "concatenated".
On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 5:48 PM, Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> wrote: > Rodrigo Queiro wrote: > > I discovered this because Python's tarfile module fails to open such files >> with "invalid header", since it expects this field to contain an ASCII >> number, as described in the docs: >> > > That's a shortcoming in tar's documentation. Tar uses the GNU format by > default, which has a base-256 extension that supports negative timestamps. > If you want GNU tar to refuse to use this GNU extension, please use '-H > ustar'. > > I fixed the documentation bug by installing the attached patches. Most of > them are to bring Tar up-to-date with recently-released compilers and > whatnot; patch 0003 fixes the documentation bug in question. > -- Google Germany GmbH | Erika-Mann-Strasse | 80636 Muenchen | Germany AG Hamburg, HRB 86891 | Sitz der Gesellschaft: Hamburg | Geschäftsführer: Paul Manicle, Halimah DeLaine Prado
