Re: [Bug-tar] Re: GNU tar Feature Question

[Joerg Schilling]

Sergey Poznyakoff <address@hidden> wrote:

> Joerg Schilling <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > What you show is a typical message from GNU tar for POSIX compliant 
> > tar archives since around 1990 and it is unclear whether the related
> > bu[g] has already been fixed.
>
> If you mean the bug illustrated by
>
> http://download.berlios.de/pub/star/testscripts/gtarfail.tar
>
> then yes, it has been fixed (as the rest of the bugs documented in the
> above location).

Well, I know but error message was the same (and unspecific: Skipping to next 
header) and it may be a result of a similar decoding problem.
If gtar did write more specific error messages (as star does), it would be be 
easier to track down problems.

Jörg

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