Hi, On Sun, Feb 11, 2024 at 09:26:14AM +0100, Elie Le Vaillant wrote: > Some tar archives (eg. ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/shtool/shtool-2.0.8.tar.gz) > use leading spaces instead of leading zeroes for numeric fields. > Although it is not allowed by the ustar specification, most tar > implementations recognize it as correct. But since 3ef6d4e4, we > replace all spaces by NULs here, not just trailing ones, which leads to > recognizing such archives as malformed. This fixes it: we now skip > over leading spaces, allowing strtol(3) to read those numeric fields.
Applied, thanks.
