[jira] Resolved: (COMPRESS-109) Tar implementation does not support Pax headers

["Sebb (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Sebb resolved COMPRESS-109.
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    Fix Version/s: 1.1
       Resolution: Fixed

Added support for reading Pax headers.

Note: global pax headers are not supported.
No support for writing pax headers.

> Tar implementation does not support Pax headers
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>
>                 Key: COMPRESS-109
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMPRESS-109
>             Project: Commons Compress
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: Sebb
>            Assignee: Sebb
>             Fix For: 1.1
>
>
> The tar implementation does not currently support Pax extended or global headers; they are treated as normal files.
> See http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/pax.html for details.
> Pax headers have a different linkType (typeflag) of 'g' or 'x', so can easily be detected.
> It would be quite a bit of work to process all the possible headers, so perhaps it would be worth providing an initial implementation that just ignores them?
> This should probably be an optional setting.

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