Tar implementation does not support Pax headers
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Key: COMPRESS-109
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMPRESS-109
Project: Commons Compress
Issue Type: Bug
Reporter: Sebb
The tar implementation does not currently support Pax extended or global
headers; they are treated as normal files.
See http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/pax.html for
details.
Pax headers have a different linkType (typeflag) of 'g' or 'x', so can easily
be detected.
It would be quite a bit of work to process all the possible headers, so perhaps
it would be worth providing an initial implementation that just ignores them?
This should probably be an optional setting.
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