Re: [Bug-tar] Missing files when option --wildcards is used

[Pavel Raiskup]

Thanks for the report, however this is not reproducible on my GNU/Linux
box.

On Tuesday 09 of December 2014 12:07:02 ROMANO MASPERO wrote:
> I've incurred in a bug in GNU tar, happening at least from version 1.17
> and still present in current version 1.28.

Have you tried to build git HEAD version of tar?  That can be also more
helpful if you plan to debug ...

> The issue is: when using option "--wildcards" and the archive contains
> more than 255 files, some files are silentkly skipped from commands such
> as listing (-t) and extraction (-x).

Would you be able to use the debugger and see, where the problem actually
is?  You could start at 'read_and' function and than step over
'decode_header' and see why the process skips 'do_something()' call.

> [...]
> it can be seen that files n. 256, 512 and 768 are missing.

It can not be seen here in this bugreport, but I hope we can trust you :).

> I'm working on Solaris SPARC 5.9; tar was compiled from sources with Sun
> C compiler 5.8.

I am unable to test this architecture, sorry.  Your help would be more
than welcome.

Pavel