otp.git/lib/stdlib/test/tar_SUITE_data, branch maint Mirror of Erlang/OTP repository. Update erl_tar to support PAX format, etc. 2017-02-16T13:55:15+00:00 Paul Schoenfelder paulschoenfelder@gmail.com 2017-01-31T23:40:34+00:00 aa0c4b0df7cdc750450906aff4e8c81627d80605 This commit introduces the following key changes: - Support for reading tar archives in formats currently in common use, such as v7, STAR, USTAR, PAX, and GNU tar's extensions to the STAR/USTAR format. - Support for writing PAX archives, only when necessary, using USTAR when possible for greater portability. These changes result in lifting of some prior restrictions: - Support for reading archives produced by modern tar implementations when other restrictions described below are present. - Support for filenames which exceed 100 bytes in length, or paths which exceed 255 bytes (see USTAR format specification for more details on this restriction). - Support for filenames of arbitrary length - Support for unicode metadata (the previous behaviour of erl_tar was actually violating the spec, by writing unicode-encoded data to fields which are defined to be 7-bit ASCII, even though this technically worked when using erl_tar at source and destination, it may not have worked with other tar utilities, and this implementation now conforms to the spec). - Support for uid/gid values which cannot be converted to octal integers. 
This commit introduces the following key changes:

- Support for reading tar archives in formats currently in common use,
  such as v7, STAR, USTAR, PAX, and GNU tar's extensions to the
  STAR/USTAR format.
- Support for writing PAX archives, only when necessary, using USTAR
  when possible for greater portability.

These changes result in lifting of some prior restrictions:

- Support for reading archives produced by modern tar implementations
  when other restrictions described below are present.
- Support for filenames which exceed 100 bytes in length, or paths which
  exceed 255 bytes (see USTAR format specification for more details on
  this restriction).
- Support for filenames of arbitrary length
- Support for unicode metadata (the previous behaviour of erl_tar was
  actually violating the spec, by writing unicode-encoded data to fields
  which are defined to be 7-bit ASCII, even though this technically
  worked when using erl_tar at source and destination, it may not have
  worked with other tar utilities, and this implementation now conforms
  to the spec).
- Support for uid/gid values which cannot be converted to octal
  integers.
The R13B03 release. 2009-11-20T14:54:40+00:00 Erlang/OTP otp@erlang.org 2009-11-20T14:54:40+00:00 84adefa331c4159d432d22840663c38f155cd4c1