Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2000 20:30:37 +1000 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: Anatoly Vorobey <mellon@pobox.com> Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/17619: pax cannot read all tar files created by tar. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004022001380.1363-100000@alphplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <200004020840.AAA76390@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Sun, 2 Apr 2000, Anatoly Vorobey wrote: > The following reply was made to PR bin/17619; it has been noted by GNATS. The following reply has not been noted by gnats :-). > FWIW, the page at www.paranoia.com/~vax/tar_format.html , currently > uavailable but cached at > http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:www.paranoia.com/~vax/tar_format.html , > says that there must be two trailer blocks. This is POSIX.1 standard. gnu tar-1.11.2 never claimed to be POSIX standard, and isn't (see gnu cpio/README). gnu tar-1.11.2 is now more than 8 years old, but gnu tar-1.13 still has the trailer block bug and the bugs referred to in cpio/README. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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