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[Bug-tar] octal reading in spec


From: NBC
Subject: [Bug-tar] octal reading in spec
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 22:30:24 +0200
User-agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Windows/20060719)

in the manual it's written

>The `chksum' field is the ASCII representation of the octal value of
>the simple sum of all bytes in the header block.  Each 8-bit byte in
>the header is added to an unsigned integer, initialized to zero, the
>precision of which shall be no less than seventeen bits.  When
>calculating the checksum, the `chksum' field is treated as if it were
>all blanks.

and when i check "tar-1.15.91.tar" i've got for the 1st entry
30 31 32 36 31 32 00 20

char chksum[8];               /* 148 */

30 31 32 36 31 32 is the checksum in octal
but what is 00 20

>All other fields are zero-filled
>octal numbers in ASCII.  Each numeric field of width W contains W minus
>1 digits, and a null.

shouldnt it have been
30 30 31 32 36 31 32 00
??

or anything after \0 is garbage




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