On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 2:45 AM, Otto Moerbeek <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 11:48:11PM -0500, Peter Bisroev wrote:
>
> ...
>
> This problem is already being discussed on bugs@ (with a different diff).
> I suggest to send this diff to bugs@ to keep the converation in one place.
> http://marc.info/?t=145495481100003&r=1&w=2

Hi Otto, thank you for pointing this out, looking at the submission dates I
see why I have missed that post. I saw this issue last week but did not
file a bug report at that time. So when I did send it through there was one
already. Will double check next time to avoid this race condition :). Sorry,
my fault.

The diff on that thread appears to be the same as mine here, except for the
comments. Should I still send it through or just leave it here and keep that
thread clean?

>> Also, there is another tricky issue which still exhibits proper behavior
>> according to the spec:
>>   
>> http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/pax.html#tag_20_92_13_06
>> yet it is not very consistent.
>>
>> If there is a directory name which is exactly 155 bytes long, and this
>> directory is being archived, pax will complain that that directory name is 
>> too
>> long, yet it will archive the files underneath that directory assuming they
>> fit into the TNMSZ name limit.
>>
>> In circumstances like these, what would be the most appropriate behavior for
>> pax? Because if that directory is empty, it will not be archived, but if 
>> there
>> is even a single file underneath it pax will complain, but still archive this
>> directory without an error when it is archiving the actual file.
>>
>> Please let me know if I can help further.
>
> This problem is related but different, I'll Cc: guenther to bring this to
> his attention.
>
>         -Otto

Thank you Otto!
--peter

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