Re: pax: GNU tar base-256 size field support

2023-04-22 Thread Marc Espie
On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 08:10:06PM -0600, Todd C. Miller wrote: > I recently ran into a problem with busybox tar generating archives > where the size field is base-256 encoded for files larger than 8GB. > Apparently this is a GNU tar extension. > > Do we want to support this in pax? Below is an i

pax: GNU tar base-256 size field support

2023-04-18 Thread Todd C . Miller
I recently ran into a problem with busybox tar generating archives where the size field is base-256 encoded for files larger than 8GB. Apparently this is a GNU tar extension. Do we want to support this in pax? Below is an initial diff that at least produces the correct results when listing the ar