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Re: [Bug-tar] Poorly-named PAX extended header entries.
From: |
Sergey Poznyakoff |
Subject: |
Re: [Bug-tar] Poorly-named PAX extended header entries. |
Date: |
Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:49:53 +0200 |
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