posix tar does not handle long filenames

[mc-butler]

Important

This issue was migrated from Trac:

Origin	https://midnight-commander.org/ticket/2306
Reporter	jendap (jendap@….com)

Standard posix tar files have long filenames in extended headers (header "path=/some/very/long/filename").

The header is simply skipped now - see "Skip over pax extended header and global extended header records." in tar.c

Steps to reproduce the tar file:
echo "foo" >very_0_very_1_very_2_very_3_very_4_very_5_very_6_very_7_very_8_very_9_very_10_very_11_very_12_long_filename
tar cf foo.tar --format=posix very*

BTW: This is important especially in java world as there are deep directories and long filenames - virtually no tar file of any java project can be opened correctly in mc.

[mc-butler]

Changed by andrew_b (@aborodin) on Aug 10, 2010 at 4:05 UTC (comment 1)

• Resolution set to duplicate
• Status changed from new to closed
• Milestone 4.7 deleted
• Version 4.7.3 deleted

Duplicate of #2201.

[mc-butler]

Changed by zaytsev (@zyv) on Feb 21, 2025 at 7:37 UTC (comment 2)

• Branch state set to no branch

Closed as duplicate of #2201.