Re: [Bug-tar] tar writes invalid mtime for times before the epoch

[Rodrigo Queiro]

Thank you! FYI, there's a typo in 0003 - "concatenating" instead of "concatenated".

On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 5:48 PM, Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:

Rodrigo Queiro wrote:

I discovered this because Python's tarfile module fails to open such files
with "invalid header", since it expects this field to contain an ASCII
number, as described in the docs:

That's a shortcoming in tar's documentation. Tar uses the GNU format by default, which has a base-256 extension that supports negative timestamps. If you want GNU tar to refuse to use this GNU extension, please use '-H ustar'.

I fixed the documentation bug by installing the attached patches. Most of them are to bring Tar up-to-date with recently-released compilers and whatnot; patch 0003 fixes the documentation bug in question.

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