From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2013 23:31:06 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] archive-tar: split long paths more carefully
Message-ID: <20130105233106.GA5686@elie.Belkin>
In-Reply-To: <50E8AE12.8040102@lsrfire.ath.cx>

René Scharfe wrote:

> --- a/archive-tar.c
> +++ b/archive-tar.c
> @@ -153,6 +153,8 @@ static unsigned int ustar_header_chksum(const struct ustar_header *header)
>  static size_t get_path_prefix(const char *path, size_t pathlen, size_t maxlen)
>  {
>  	size_t i = pathlen;
> +	if (i > 1 && path[i - 1] == '/')
> +		i--;

Beautiful.