[dev] [sbase] tar: GNUTYPE support?

2017-02-15 Thread willy
it'd be better IMO, as it would avoid relying on implementation-specific behaviors. I'm aware they are not standard, but they seem to be pretty common, and without them, one cannot even extract the gcc or clang source code. -- willy

Re: [dev] [sbase] [tar] some errors

2017-02-03 Thread willy
Willy Gfn wrote: > Michael Forney wrote: > > On 12/24/16, Cág wrote: > > > Markus Wichmann wrote: > > > > > >> Well, that looks like it might be problematic, doesn't it? Especially > > >> when you find out, that the size of h->name ther

Re: [dev] [sbase] [tar] some errors

2017-02-03 Thread willy
Michael Forney wrote: > On 12/24/16, Cág wrote: > > Markus Wichmann wrote: > > > >> Well, that looks like it might be problematic, doesn't it? Especially > >> when you find out, that the size of h->name there is 100 bytes. path > >> contains, of course, the entire file path relative to the startin

Re: [dev] [sbase] tar fails to extract bzip2

2017-02-03 Thread willy
Michael Forney wrote: > On 2/2/17, willy wrote: > > At this point, I'm not sure where to look at, or even if the bug > > really lies in tar and not in bzip2. > > I checked the size (both octal and converted) and the value is good. So > > I'm not sure why the

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2017-02-02 Thread willy
but depending on the archives, it can occur on the second entry or in the middle, there's no rule. I hope my example are clear to define what the issue is. Would anyone have an idea? -- willy diff --git a/tar.c b/tar.c index 71719b0..49ecfae 100644 --- a/tar.c +++ b/tar.c @@ -351,8 +351,10