Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Upcoming release of 1.2.2rc1

[Robin Farine]

On Monday 30 August 2004 17.00, Aaron Bentley wrote:

> >   2. The tag boundary detection code has illuminated some long
> > term tla misbehavior that nobody seemed aware of. As such,
> > panicing was too strong a step to take, and the panic has been
> > reduced to a warning.
>
> That warning should not happen at all if the tag isn't really
> being truncated.  I believe that was Duffy's case?
>
> And maybe the warning belongs in tree-lint, rather than the main
> inventory.

Why is it a problem at all when an embedded file id crosses the 1K 
boundary ? I thought it was just a limit to _search_ for an id. Can 
someone comment on this ?

Robin