On Thu, 28 Sep 2006, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:

Henrik Grubbström <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Oops, sorry; the issue exists with both GNU tar 1.14 and 1.5.91.

OK, thank you.  You wrote:

Unfortunately, it seems Solaris tar bails out at the first path longer
than 100 characters:
 $ /bin/tar tvf gtar.ustar.512
 tar: blocksize = 7
 drwxr-xr-x 1053/1053      0 Sep 28 15:42 2006 
long_path_name_so_we_dont_need_to_recurse_so_much/
 drwxr-xr-x 1053/1053      0 Sep 28 15:43 2006 
long_path_name_so_we_dont_need_to_recurse_so_much/long_path_name_so_we_dont_need_to_recurse_so_much/

I do not see any error diagnostics here.  Did it display some?

No errors; it just terminated. I guess it interprets a block starting with a NUL as the EOF block.

Regards,
Sergey

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Henrik Grubbström                                       [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Roxen Internet Software AB
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