Re: [Bug-tar] USTAR interoperability with Solaris 10 /bin/tar

[Henrik Grubbström]

On Thu, 28 Sep 2006, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:

> Henrik Grubbström <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Oops, sorry; the issue exists with both GNU tar 1.14 and 1.5.91.
>
> OK, thank you.  You wrote:
>
> > Unfortunately, it seems Solaris tar bails out at the first path longer
> > than 100 characters:
> >  $ /bin/tar tvf gtar.ustar.512
> >  tar: blocksize = 7
> >  drwxr-xr-x 1053/1053      0 Sep 28 15:42 2006 
> > long_path_name_so_we_dont_need_to_recurse_so_much/
> >  drwxr-xr-x 1053/1053      0 Sep 28 15:43 2006 
> > long_path_name_so_we_dont_need_to_recurse_so_much/long_path_name_so_we_dont_need_to_recurse_so_much/
>
> I do not see any error diagnostics here.  Did it display some?

No errors; it just terminated. I guess it interprets a block starting 
with a NUL as the EOF block.

> Regards,
> Sergey

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Henrik Grubbström                                       address@hidden
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