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

Micha? Górny wrote: > 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-

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

Micha? Górny wrote: > 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- #e

[Bug-tar] 'BZh[1-9]' file in v7 format archive confuses GNU tar

Hi, Here's another quirk I've found: $ echo test > BZh5 $ tar --format=v7 -cf test.tar BZh5 $ tar -xf test.tar bzip2: stdin: compressed data error: bad block header magic tar: Child returned status 1 tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now I think the easiest solution would be to copy the tri