[issue5869] 100th character truncation in 2.4 tarfile.py

2009-04-28 Thread Neville Bagnall

New submission from Neville Bagnall neville.bagn...@propylon.com:

When tarinfo.name is exactly 100 characters long, the last character is
truncated in the tarfile

Attached patch contains the extremely simple fix.

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components: Library (Lib)
files: tarfile.patch
keywords: patch
messages: 86759
nosy: neville.bagnall
severity: normal
status: open
title: 100th character truncation in 2.4 tarfile.py
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.4
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file13806/tarfile.patch

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[issue5869] 100th character truncation in 2.4 tarfile.py

2009-04-28 Thread Neville Bagnall

Neville Bagnall neville.bagn...@propylon.com added the comment:

Lars, for information. I'm closing as 2.4 isn't being maintained I
presume, and while I believe it also affects 2.5, I don't think its a
security issue, just data loss

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nosy: +lars.gustaebel
status: open - closed
versions: +Python 2.5

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