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Re: [Bug-tar] tar writes invalid mtime for times before the epoch

From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: [Bug-tar] tar writes invalid mtime for times before the epoch
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2017 08:48:14 -0800
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Rodrigo Queiro wrote:


I discovered this because Python's tarfile module fails to open such files
with "invalid header", since it expects this field to contain an ASCII
number, as described in the docs:
That's a shortcoming in tar's documentation. Tar uses the GNU format by default, which has a base-256 extension that supports negative timestamps. If you want GNU tar to refuse to use this GNU extension, please use '-H ustar'.
I fixed the documentation bug by installing the attached patches. Most of them are to bring Tar up-to-date with recently-released compilers and whatnot; patch 0003 fixes the documentation bug in question.

Attachment: 0001-Fix-typo-caught-by-GCC-7.2.1.patch
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Attachment: 0002-build-update-gnulib-submodule-to-latest.patch
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Attachment: 0003-Document-base-256-representation-in-GNU-format.patch
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Attachment: 0004-Port-to-Texinfo-6.4.patch
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Attachment: 0005-Port-to-gcc-Wimplicit-fallthrough-5.patch
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