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List:       busybox
Subject:    Re: tar: corrupted octal value in tar header
From:       Peter Renzland <peter () dancing ! org>
Date:       2009-09-21 0:12:19
Message-ID: 3834B27B-C7C7-4657-9982-19A9606E6572 () dancing ! org
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On 09  Sep 20, at 19:31 , Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> On Sunday 20 September 2009 23:51, Peter Renzland wrote:
>> It appears ironic that Snow Leopard, "The World's most advanced OS",
>> has switched to the POSIX tar format, which according to BusyBox
>> terminology requires "OLDGNU_COMPATIBILITY".
>
> I do not think that POSIX says that there must be trailing space
> in those fields.
>
> It's more likely that whoever was implementing tar
> for Snow Leopard just "reused" code from some oldish tar
> which was creating such fields, without much thinking why
> this old code does that, and whether it makes sense
> to continue to do that.

That sounds very plausible.  I'm following up with Apple.  Thanks again.

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