It looks to me as though the Writer specifically only handles the posix standard tar, which does indeed limit you to 100 characters. It appears as though they've implemented support for reading the GNU format, which I think does not place limits on the name length. See https://github.com/golang/go/issues/12594 for some discussion about the assumptions being made by the current package.
On Tuesday, May 9, 2017 at 7:42:52 AM UTC-7, Terence wrote: > > I am attempting to TAR a directory with relatively long file names (over > 100 chars long) and all I get is garbage. Is there any way to TAR a > directory with file paths longer than 100 chars? > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
