On Apr 8, 2013, at 17:05 , Jeff King <p...@peff.net> wrote:
> That makes me think the latter ("we are wrong"). I don't have my OS X
> box handy; can you provide a sample empty tarfile that it creates?I created mac.tar on my Mac and linux.tar on a RHEL6.3 machine (tar (GNU tar) 1.23). Both were created with tar cTf /dev/null xxx.tar Both files are accepted by tar on both the Mac and the RHEL machines. (Both files contain nothing but zeros.) -- BJ Hargrave
mac.tar
Description: Unix tar archive
linux.tar
Description: Unix tar archive
