Thanks for the patches, they look good to me be I'll do a proper review
this weekend if nobody else did before.
Cheers!
It is worth nothing that I also talked to mcf off list and he said
getting a finished implementation of pax might be an even better option
as that is a posix standard w
Hi Andrew,
> Posix tarballs use extended headers to represent paths and values that do
> not fit in the original ustar header format. This patch implements parsing
> and handling of a subset of these extended headers. The motivating
> tarball was the gcc source code, which exceeds the original pa
Posix tarballs use extended headers to represent paths and values that do
not fit in the original ustar header format. This patch implements parsing
and handling of a subset of these extended headers. The motivating
tarball was the gcc source code, which exceeds the original path limit.
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tar.c
