Notice bug-fix patch

2023-03-22 Thread anton
Hi! I recently posted a fix for a bug. Could someone check it, please? https://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?10320

[Bug-tar] [GNU tar 1.16.1] testsuite: 2 6 9 10 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 25 26 27 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 37 43 44 46 49 50 51 52 53 54 57 58 59 60 64 failed

2007-03-30 Thread Anton Opperman
Operating system is AIX 5.3 ML5 ## -- ## ## GNU tar 1.16.1 test suite. ## ## -- ## testsuite: command line was: $ ./testsuite ## --- ## ## ChangeLogs. ## ## --- ## testsuite: ../ChangeLog: | 2006-12-08 Sergey Poznyakoff <[EMA

contrary to docs, tar --xattr alone does not extract all xattrs

2022-11-23 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hey. This is with tar 1.34 from Debian unstable. The info page claims in 4.3.2 Extended File Attributes: > Attribute names are strings prefixed by a "namespace" name and a dot. > Currently, four namespaces exist: 'user', 'trusted', 'security' and > 'system'. By default, when '--xattr' is used, a

[Bug-tar] Typo in PAX GNU 1.0 sparse file documentation

2018-07-20 Thread Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]
Hello, It looks like that in section http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node/PAX-1.html#SEC193 the sentence, "It consists of a series of octal numbers of arbitrary length, delimited by newlines." should actually mention "decimal" instead of "octal". Best regards, Anton Lavrentiev