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Re: [Bug-tar] 'BZh[1-9]' file in v7 format archive confuses GNU tar


From: Sergey Poznyakoff
Subject: Re: [Bug-tar] 'BZh[1-9]' file in v7 format archive confuses GNU tar
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2018 13:55:06 +0200

Sergey Poznyakoff <address@hidden> ha escrit:

> Before attempting compression format identification, tar tests if
> the first block read is a valid tar header block. However, the
> test itself is stricter than necessary. The following patch should
> fix this:

This, however, will mistakingly qualify some compressed archives as
uncompressed (see commit 1847ec67cec36a17354115374954fea211d1f0da),
so definitely the test must be more sophisticated.

Regards,
Sergey





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