Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 14:39:55 -0700 From: Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> To: Steven Hartland <killing@multiplay.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bug in BSD tar? Message-ID: <465B4C2B.6060104@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <005d01c7a169$b48c7390$b6db87d4@multiplay.co.uk>
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Steven Hartland wrote:
> When compressing files with specific filenames it appears that BSD
> tar is creating invalid archives which when handed to gnutar to
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> expand it errors with the following:
> [log]
> tar -xvzf test.tar.gz
> tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.dev'
> tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.ino'
> tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.nlink'
> cantiquedeno\353l1_loop.wav
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> [/log]
This looks like fairly typical symptoms of gnutar being broken. What
makes you think that the archive created by BSD tar was invalid?
Colin Percival
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