iSteve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've got a longlink in tar, which has some filename as data. The > following block, however, is not marked as link, it is containing > data. I thought that he next should be marked as symlink then?
When a symbolic link points to a file whose name is longer than 100 characters, the traditional GNU tar archive store these data as follows: first a block is written with its size field containing the actual length of the name the link points to, with "././@LongLink" in its name field, 'K' in its type field, valid uname and gname fields, and the rest of fields set to 0. Immediately following this block the target name is written in integer number of blocks. Following this goes the usual tar header describing the link itself. Regards, Sergey _______________________________________________ Bug-tar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-tar
