Re: [Bug-tar] GNU tar generates malformed Pax attributes

2014-01-05 Thread Tim Kientzle
On Jan 5, 2014, at 3:01 AM, Linda A. Walsh wrote: > Sorry for responding to this so far after the initial posting, > but it caught my eye... > > Joerg Schilling wrote: >> Tim Kientzle wrote: >>> Quoting from ?IEEE Std 1003.1, 2013 Edition? >>> http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/ut

Re: [Bug-tar] GNU tar generates malformed Pax attributes

2014-01-05 Thread Paul Eggert
Let's please limit bug-tar@gnu.org to discussion of GNU tar; bug reports for other tar implementations should be sent to their respective mailing lists.

Re: [Bug-tar] GNU tar generates malformed Pax attributes

2014-01-05 Thread Linda Walsh
Joerg Schilling wrote: This is a star version that is 6 years old, so nobody currently cares about it anymore and the fact that you did never send any information that would allow to debug a potential reason makes it obvious that you do not have a problem, but rather like to grump without rea

Re: [Bug-tar] GNU tar generates malformed Pax attributes

2014-01-05 Thread Joerg Schilling
"Linda A. Walsh" wrote: > >> I suppose I?ll have to rework libarchive?s pax parser to > >> tolerate this. It would be nice if GNU tar could avoid > >> such brokenness in the future. > > > > This is definitely a bug in gtar and I hope that not many archives exist > > with > > this problem. >

Re: [Bug-tar] GNU tar generates malformed Pax attributes

2014-01-05 Thread Linda A. Walsh
Sorry for responding to this so far after the initial posting, but it caught my eye... Joerg Schilling wrote: Tim Kientzle wrote: Quoting from ?IEEE Std 1003.1, 2013 Edition? http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/pax.html An extended header shall consist of one or more r

Re: [Bug-tar] GNU tar generates malformed Pax attributes

2013-12-09 Thread Pavel Raiskup
Hi Jörg, > On Monday, December 09, 2013 12:46:48 Joerg Schilling wrote: > Pavel Raiskup wrote: > > [...] > > $ setfattr -n user.test -v 0x01020304 FILE > > $ star H=exustar -xattr -c -f test.star FILE > > Well, this may be a problem that is a result from implementing a withdrawn > draft on Li

Re: [Bug-tar] GNU tar generates malformed Pax attributes

2013-12-09 Thread Joerg Schilling
Pavel Raiskup wrote: > On Monday, December 09, 2013 00:02:41 Joerg Schilling wrote: > > Tim Kientzle wrote: > > > > > Pavel recently sent me an archive created with GNU tar > > > that includes SCHILY.xattr extensions. > > > > I would guess that the problem is not SCHILY.xattr extensions in gener

Re: [Bug-tar] GNU tar generates malformed Pax attributes

2013-12-09 Thread Pavel Raiskup
On Monday, December 09, 2013 00:02:41 Joerg Schilling wrote: > Tim Kientzle wrote: > > > Pavel recently sent me an archive created with GNU tar > > that includes SCHILY.xattr extensions. > > I would guess that the problem is not SCHILY.xattr extensions in general but > a buggy implementation in gt

Re: [Bug-tar] GNU tar generates malformed Pax attributes

2013-12-08 Thread Joerg Schilling
Tim Kientzle wrote: > Pavel recently sent me an archive created with GNU tar > that includes SCHILY.xattr extensions. I would guess that the problem is not SCHILY.xattr extensions in general but a buggy implementation in gtar. > bsdtar chokes on this because the Pax attributes are malformed.

[Bug-tar] GNU tar generates malformed Pax attributes

2013-12-08 Thread Tim Kientzle
Pavel recently sent me an archive created with GNU tar that includes SCHILY.xattr extensions. bsdtar chokes on this because the Pax attributes are malformed. Quoting from “IEEE Std 1003.1, 2013 Edition” http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/pax.html > An extended header shal