[Bug-tar] ustar-format archives with 32-char long user/group names are misinterpreted

2018-11-24 Thread Michał Górny
Hello, I've been tinkering with the tar format limitations and noticed that GNU tar (as of v1.30) misbehaves when given ustar-format archive created by bsdtar (from libarchive) and using 32-char long user/group name. The output is: $ tar -tvf test.tar -rw-r--r-- verylongverylongverylongverylon

Re: [Bug-tar] ustar-format archives with 32-char long user/group names are misinterpreted

2018-11-24 Thread Sergey Poznyakoff
Hi Micha, Thanks for the report. I've pushed commit ba472050 to fix that. Regards, Sergey

[Bug-tar] ACL entries contain comments which may break compatibility

2018-11-24 Thread Michał Górny
Hi, Thanks for fixing the previous bug I reported. Sadly, I just managed to accidentally find another one. When ACL mask restricts effective ACL entries, getfacl(1) reports the effective permissions as a comment, e.g.: user:nobody:rw- #effective:r-- It seems that GNU tar writes

Re: [Bug-tar] ACL entries contain comments which may break compatibility

2018-11-24 Thread Sergey Poznyakoff
> I just managed to accidentally find another one. Thanks a lot. Commit 62c0c3a7 fixes this. Regards, Sergey