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Re: [PATCH] support filename prefixes and 100-character filenames in tar
From: |
Juri Linkov |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH] support filename prefixes and 100-character filenames in tar-mode.el |
Date: |
Thu, 17 Apr 2008 02:17:19 +0300 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) |
>> >> > With all of the patch except for the change in the initial
>> >> > initialization of name-end, the results look correct, except the
>> >> > penultimate line ends in "foo2" instead of "foo20"; that is because
>> >> > the name field here fill the entire field with no nulls, but the code
>> >> > previously assumed there would be at least one null. (It's possible
>> >> > that similar adjustments are required for the initial values of
>> >> > link-end, gname-end, and uname-end.)
>> >>
>> >> Does your patch also handle @LongLink currently unsupported by
>> tar-mode.el?
>> >
>> > Is it actually unsupported? When I tried to make a tarball to test
>> > this issue with GNU tar, I saw stuff about "@LongLink" when I opened
>> > it in tar-mode. (Try making a tarball from the one I sent using GNU
>> > tar; you'll see what I mean; I made my test tarball with pax, since
>> > that was what was used to make the one I opened when I first noticed
>> > this issue.) I don't know if it was correct or not, though.
>>
>> Please see a test tarball attached below. It is correctly created with
>> GNU tar, but opening it in Emacs displays the following message:
>>
>> Warning: premature EOF parsing tar file
>>
>> Also its file listing is incomplete, file names are truncated, and content
>> of some files is inserted into the file listing in the tar-mode buffer.
>>
>> I thought your patch will fix these problems.
>
> Ugh, that's pretty gross. Mine fixes issues with a different way of
> encoding long file names, as far as I understand. However, there is
> *some* long-link support in tar-mode.el, just not whatever's up with
> that file.
It seems tar-mode.el has some limitations on the file name lengths.
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
- [PATCH] support filename prefixes and 100-character filenames in tar-mode.el, David Glasser, 2008/04/11
- Re: [PATCH] support filename prefixes and 100-character filenames in tar-mode.el, Juri Linkov, 2008/04/13
- Re: [PATCH] support filename prefixes and 100-character filenames in tar-mode.el, David Glasser, 2008/04/13
- Re: [PATCH] support filename prefixes and 100-character filenames in tar-mode.el, Juri Linkov, 2008/04/15
- Re: [PATCH] support filename prefixes and 100-character filenames in tar-mode.el, David Glasser, 2008/04/15
- Re: [PATCH] support filename prefixes and 100-character filenames in tar-mode.el,
Juri Linkov <=
- Re: [PATCH] support filename prefixes and 100-character filenames in tar-mode.el, David Glasser, 2008/04/16
- Re: [PATCH] support filename prefixes and 100-character filenames in tar-mode.el, Juri Linkov, 2008/04/17
- Re: [PATCH] support filename prefixes and 100-character filenames in tar-mode.el, Chong Yidong, 2008/04/17
- Re: [PATCH] support filename prefixes and 100-character filenames in tar-mode.el, Juri Linkov, 2008/04/22
- Re: [PATCH] support filename prefixes and 100-character filenames in tar-mode.el, David Glasser, 2008/04/22