From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun Apr 2 3:31:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from mailman.zeta.org.au (mailman.zeta.org.au [203.26.10.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F4B937B51A for ; Sun, 2 Apr 2000 03:31:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bde@zeta.org.au) Received: from bde.zeta.org.au (bde.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.102]) by mailman.zeta.org.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA02872; Sun, 2 Apr 2000 20:30:55 +1000 Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2000 20:30:37 +1000 (EST) From: Bruce Evans X-Sender: bde@alphplex.bde.org To: Anatoly Vorobey Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/17619: pax cannot read all tar files created by tar. In-Reply-To: <200004020840.AAA76390@freefall.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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