[issue5869] 100th character truncation in 2.4 tarfile.py

2009-04-28 Thread Neville Bagnall
New submission from Neville Bagnall neville.bagn...@propylon.com: When tarinfo.name is exactly 100 characters long, the last character is truncated in the tarfile Attached patch contains the extremely simple fix. -- components: Library (Lib) files: tarfile.patch keywords: patch

[issue5869] 100th character truncation in 2.4 tarfile.py

2009-04-28 Thread Neville Bagnall
Neville Bagnall neville.bagn...@propylon.com added the comment: Lars, for information. I'm closing as 2.4 isn't being maintained I presume, and while I believe it also affects 2.5, I don't think its a security issue, just data loss -- nosy: +lars.gustaebel status: open - closed