Re: [Bug-tar] Re: AMTAR brokenness

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz]

>>> "Gunnar" == Gunnar Ritter <address@hidden> writes:

 Gunnar> Alexandre Duret-Lutz <address@hidden> wrote:
 >> >>> "Paul" == Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:
 >> 
 Paul> Alexandre Duret-Lutz <address@hidden> writes:
 >> 
 >> >> address@hidden selects the new pax format defined by POSIX
 >> >> +1003.1-2001.  It supports filenames with up to 65535 characters.
 >> 
 Paul> Hmm, where did that "65535" come from?  I don't know of any limit of
 Paul> 65535 bytes (presumably you meant bytes, not characters) that is
 Paul> required by POSIX.
 >> 
 >> I read that in the Heirloom pax manpage
 >> http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/man/pax.1.html
 >> 
 >> Maybe its maintainer can enlighten us.

 Gunnar> The reason why I introduced this was the following: 

Thanks for the story!  Since 65535 does not reflect a real
limit, I've changed this paragraph to

     `tar-pax' selects the new pax interchange format defined by POSIX
     1003.1-2001.  It does not limit the length of filenames.  However,
     this format is very young and should probably be restricted to
     packages which target only very modern platforms.  There are moves
     to change the pax format in an upward-compatible way, so this
     option may refer to a more recent version in the future.
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Alexandre Duret-Lutz