On Thursday 25 November 2010 11:28:00 Sergey Poznyakoff wrote: > Kamil Dudka <[email protected]> ha escrit: > > Sergey, wait, what exactly is intended? > > Intended is the tar's action during restore, namely: the value of the > "path" keyword overrides the file name stored in the ustar header. That > is correct. > > Now, what's *not* intended is that the path keyword was set to an incorrect > value during archive creation. I will see how to fix it.
I see two choices: 1) Store valid file name into "path". 2) Avoid using "path" at all with "GNU PAX sparse file format 1.0". Either way, we should give users a chance to correctly unpack already affected archives. Kamil
