Re: [Bug-tar] Poorly-named PAX extended header entries.

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Tim Kientzle <address@hidden> ha escrit:

> In GNU tar 1.19, the pax extended header entry for '.'
> has the name "./PaxHeader.####/."
[...]
> Generally, '.' is a poor name for something that will
> get extracted as a file by a non-compliant reader.

The name was selected to comply with the pax specification:

         If no -o exthdr.name= string is specified, pax shall use
         the following default value [for extended header names]:

                      %d/PaxHeaders.%p/%f

where `%d' expands to the directory name of the file.

(See
e.g. http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/pax.html)

Regards,
Sergey