Re: [Bug-tar] [PATCH 1/2] tests: new test sparse04 for --sparse --posix and long names

[Kamil Dudka]

On Thursday 25 November 2010 11:28:00 Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:
> Kamil Dudka <address@hidden> ha escrit:
> > Sergey, wait, what exactly is intended?
>
> Intended is the tar's action during restore, namely: the value of the
> "path" keyword overrides the file name stored in the ustar header.  That
> is correct.
>
> Now, what's *not* intended is that the path keyword was set to an incorrect
> value during archive creation.  I will see how to fix it.

I see two choices:

1) Store valid file name into "path".

2) Avoid using "path" at all with "GNU PAX sparse file format 1.0".

Either way, we should give users a chance to correctly unpack already
affected archives.

Kamil