Found a bug in tar-header at "ustar" magic indicator field

2020-10-27 Thread Juha Mäkinen
Hello everyone, I looked at the contents of the tar-file in hex editor. What I noticed is that the tar header is formed incorrectly. It's supposed to contain the "ustar" TMAGIC indicator at offset 257 followed by a null. But, what I get is "ustar" followed by a space (0x20). Then at offset 263, i

Re: Found a bug in tar-header at "ustar" magic indicator field

2020-10-28 Thread Juha Mäkinen
Thanks, I'll check it out. On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 8:59 AM Sergey Poznyakoff wrote: > > What I noticed is that the tar header is formed incorrectly. It's > supposed > > to > > contain the "ustar" TMAGIC indicator at offset 257 followed by a null. > > That archive is in GNU tar format, which hi