I was using suckless tar to create an archive of a Python package, and hit a limit. When checking out the code, I noticed that the name of the file is 100 characters long, however there is also the prefix field which is 155 characters long, and the actual path should be combined from prefix (if present) + name.
https://git.suckless.org/sbase/file/tar.c.html#l36 The path that failed was ./sucks/lib/python3.9/site-packages/docutils/parsers/__pycache__/commonmark_wrapper.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc which is 104 characters long. On further inspection, it seems that the prefix field is taken into account with -x and -t ("small dance..."): https://git.suckless.org/sbase/file/tar.c.html#l460 but not with -c: https://git.suckless.org/sbase/file/tar.c.html#l204 I just wanted to know if this is planned for a future update. If not, I'd like to try to implement long (>100) path splitting for -c.
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