From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 19:21:24 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] archive-tar: write extended headers for file sizes >= 8GB
Message-ID: <20160623192124.GA32745@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <576A2625.8010706@web.de>

On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 07:46:13AM +0200, René Scharfe wrote:

> Yes, it's only useful as a debug flag, but the fact that it breaks
> highlights a (admittedly mostly theoretical) shortcoming: The code doesn't
> handle extended headers that are over the size limit as nicely as it could.
> So the test was already worth it, even if won't land in master. :)

Kind of. It was impossible to trigger in the original (and we still
don't actually handle it in the revised version; we just die in
xsnprintf).

But still, I'll go with the simpler thing we've discussed here. The
symmetry with ustar_mtime isn't worth it, and doubly so if we just write
a single pax header.

-Peff