[PATCH 0/4] fix pax extended header length calculation
- From
René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
- Date
- Aug 17, 2019, 16:19 UTC
- Message-ID
- <c77a0081-93ab-7b97-e322-9616f6e7f86c@web.de>
The code for building pax extended headers has been miscalculating lengths slightly shorter than powers of 10 since I wrote it in 2006. That affects entries for paths with a length of 990, 991, 9989, 9990, 9991, 99988 etc. and link targets 4 characters shorter. Here's a series for fixing it.
archive-tar: report wrong pax extended header length archive-tar: fix pax extended header length calculation archive-tar: use size_t in strbuf_append_ext_header() archive-tar: turn length miscalculation warning into BUG
archive-tar.c | 14 ++++++++++---- t/t5004-archive-corner-cases.sh | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
-- 2.23.0