Re: [Bug-tar] mac os x or general charset problem patch

[Joerg Schilling]

"Sergey Poznyakoff" <address@hidden> wrote:

> I disagree. Bypassing a file if it cannot be created in extract mode, is
> a normal behavior. In my opinion, transliterating file names can be done
> only if explicitely requested by the user. The POSIX specification of
> pax command provides a special option, -o invalid=action, which
> specifies the action to be taken upon encountering an invalid file name. 

-o invalid=action only applies to filenames found inside POSIX.1-2001 extension
headers.

POSIX.1-1988 TAR does not include a method to deal with this kind of errors.
If you like to tranfer file names between systems/users that use different 
codinh, you need to use POSIX.1-2001 extensions

Jörg

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