On 3/8/21 11:57 AM, enh via Toybox wrote: > A tar file created by toybox tar with values large enough to need > base-256 rather than ASCII octal caused a tar reader to crash, and > caused GNU tar to complain. > > I note from the docs at > https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/blob/master/libarchive/tar.5#L326 > that they imply that only the top *bit* should be set to indicate this > format, not the whole top byte, to give a 95-bit or 63-bit field. But I > don't think we can hit that in practice?
If we match what the other one's doing, good enough for the moment. Rob _______________________________________________ Toybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/toybox-landley.net
