Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 21:50:22 -0700 From: Tim Kientzle <tim@kientzle.com> To: Max Laier <max@love2party.net> Cc: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Wanted: Example tar files Message-ID: <40A9960E.7050406@kientzle.com> In-Reply-To: <200405180534.48284.max@love2party.net> References: <40A96DA2.4080306@freebsd.org> <200405180534.48284.max@love2party.net>
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Max Laier wrote: > On Tuesday 18 May 2004 03:57, Tim Kientzle wrote: > <...> > >>An ideal test archive would not be too big (< 16k) and >>have as many as possible of the following: >> * regular file >> * directory >> * hardlink >> * symlink >> * fifo, socket, device node, etc. >> * regular file with very long pathname (>256 characters) >> * symlink to a file with a very long pathname >> * file with 8-bit character in the filename >> * file with 8-bit character in the user or group name >> * file with ACL, file flags, or other extended permissions > > > How about posting such a tar somewhere so people can retar it with whatever > they have? That would require that people be able to untar whatever I provide. There are enough differences among tar implementations (especially for things like long filenames, 8-bit characters, extended permissions, etc) that it's not really possible. This is part of why I want bsdtar to be able to identify and read so many different formats. ;-) I could scrape together a shell script to build a directory with a suitable set of files (can't quite cover all of the above with that, but can cover much of it). I'll see about that. Timhome | help
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