On 22 October 2005, Hannah Schroeter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 01:43:03PM +, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> >Hannah Schroeter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >> Use a more apt data format in your use case. Ehm correcting myself:
> >> According to pax(1), 10
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On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 01:46:10PM +, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
>Jay Fenlason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> GNU tar uses a variety of ugly hacks to get around the 100 (original
>> tar) or 255 (ustar) character limit in file and path names.
>> Unfortunatly, only gnu tar can correctly
Hello!
On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 01:43:03PM +, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
>Hannah Schroeter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Use a more apt data format in your use case. Ehm correcting myself:
>> According to pax(1), 100 is the limit for pathnames in the old tar
>> format, while the limit for ust
Jay Fenlason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> GNU tar uses a variety of ugly hacks to get around the 100 (original
> tar) or 255 (ustar) character limit in file and path names.
> Unfortunatly, only gnu tar can correctly extract such archives.
Well, there are at least two independent implementations t
Hannah Schroeter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Use a more apt data format in your use case. Ehm correcting myself:
> According to pax(1), 100 is the limit for pathnames in the old tar
> format, while the limit for ustar is 250. For *pathnames*!.
>
> Perhaps you can use cpio (or pax with -x cpio).
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On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 02:07:16PM -0500, eric wrote:
>It seems that tar(1) is only able to archive filenames of 100 characters or
>less. However, ufs can handle (I've been testing using touch(1)) filenames
>up to 255 characters. I tried to modify the following in src/bin/pax/tar.h
It's an
On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 02:07:16PM -0500, eric wrote:
> It seems that tar(1) is only able to archive filenames of 100 characters or
> less. However, ufs can handle (I've been testing using touch(1)) filenames
> up to 255 characters. I tried to modify the following in src/bin/pax/tar.h
>
> #define
On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 02:07:16PM -0500, eric wrote:
> It seems that tar(1) is only able to archive filenames of 100 characters or
> less. However, ufs can handle (I've been testing using touch(1)) filenames
> up to 255 characters. I tried to modify the following in src/bin/pax/tar.h
You can't do
It's not a bug, it's a feature. Thank POSIX.2 which specifies for
ustar that the total pathname must be 255 chars or less and the
filename must be 100 chars or less.
go read pax(1)
-Bob
* eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-10-21 13:15]:
> It seems that tar(1) is only able to
It seems that tar(1) is only able to archive filenames of 100 characters or
less. However, ufs can handle (I've been testing using touch(1)) filenames
up to 255 characters. I tried to modify the following in src/bin/pax/tar.h
#define TNMSZ 100 /* size of name field */
to
#d
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