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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Lone zero blocks
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Andrew Suffield |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Lone zero blocks |
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Sat, 20 Mar 2004 09:13:11 +0000 |
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On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 09:27:34AM -0500, Aaron Bentley wrote:
> Robert Collins wrote:
> >On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 16:34, Aaron Bentley wrote:
> >there was a recent nasty bug in debian tar related to zero's - see the
> >changelog for moredetails on the problem & fix... may be related.
>
> Ah, this is debian bug #235821
> Apparently there are some differing ideas about the proper way to
> terminate tar files, and GNU tar was recently made stricter. Now it's
> been relaxed, but it's unclear to me whether the archives do, in fact,
> violate the spec.
There are several competing tar specifications, and most (probably
all) tar implementations violate at least one of them. Some of them
are broken, too.
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