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Re: [PATCH] support filename prefixes and 100-character filenames in tar
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David Glasser |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH] support filename prefixes and 100-character filenames in tar-mode.el |
Date: |
Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:17:27 -0700 |
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Juri Linkov <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> > With all of the patch except for the change in the initial
> >> > initialization of name-end, the results look correct, except the
> >> > penultimate line ends in "foo2" instead of "foo20"; that is because
> >> > the name field here fill the entire field with no nulls, but the code
> >> > previously assumed there would be at least one null. (It's possible
> >> > that similar adjustments are required for the initial values of
> >> > link-end, gname-end, and uname-end.)
> >>
> >> Does your patch also handle @LongLink currently unsupported by
> tar-mode.el?
> >
> > Is it actually unsupported? When I tried to make a tarball to test
> > this issue with GNU tar, I saw stuff about "@LongLink" when I opened
> > it in tar-mode. (Try making a tarball from the one I sent using GNU
> > tar; you'll see what I mean; I made my test tarball with pax, since
> > that was what was used to make the one I opened when I first noticed
> > this issue.) I don't know if it was correct or not, though.
>
> Please see a test tarball attached below. It is correctly created with
> GNU tar, but opening it in Emacs displays the following message:
>
> Warning: premature EOF parsing tar file
>
> Also its file listing is incomplete, file names are truncated, and content
> of some files is inserted into the file listing in the tar-mode buffer.
>
> I thought your patch will fix these problems.
Ugh, that's pretty gross. Mine fixes issues with a different way of
encoding long file names, as far as I understand. However, there is
*some* long-link support in tar-mode.el, just not whatever's up with
that file.
--dave
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David Glasser | address@hidden | http://www.davidglasser.net/
- [PATCH] support filename prefixes and 100-character filenames in tar-mode.el, David Glasser, 2008/04/11
- Re: [PATCH] support filename prefixes and 100-character filenames in tar-mode.el, Juri Linkov, 2008/04/13
- Re: [PATCH] support filename prefixes and 100-character filenames in tar-mode.el, David Glasser, 2008/04/13
- Re: [PATCH] support filename prefixes and 100-character filenames in tar-mode.el, Juri Linkov, 2008/04/15
- Re: [PATCH] support filename prefixes and 100-character filenames in tar-mode.el,
David Glasser <=
- Re: [PATCH] support filename prefixes and 100-character filenames in tar-mode.el, Juri Linkov, 2008/04/16
- Re: [PATCH] support filename prefixes and 100-character filenames in tar-mode.el, David Glasser, 2008/04/16
- Re: [PATCH] support filename prefixes and 100-character filenames in tar-mode.el, Juri Linkov, 2008/04/17
- Re: [PATCH] support filename prefixes and 100-character filenames in tar-mode.el, Chong Yidong, 2008/04/17
- Re: [PATCH] support filename prefixes and 100-character filenames in tar-mode.el, Juri Linkov, 2008/04/22
- Re: [PATCH] support filename prefixes and 100-character filenames in tar-mode.el, David Glasser, 2008/04/22