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

[Henrik Grubbström]

On Thu, 28 Sep 2006, Henrik Grubbström wrote:

> 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.

Checking the tar source in the OpenSolaris cvs indicate that the above 
hypothesis is true 
(http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/on/usr/src/cmd/tar/tar.c line 1297).

> > Regards,
> > Sergey

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Henrik Grubbström                                       address@hidden
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