[COMPRESS] Tar directory name format - append / ?

[sebb <se...@gmail.com>]

The SunOS version of tar has an "extended headers" -E option which is
intended for use with longer path names and larger file sizes.

The format of the tar file changes, as tar -E no longer appends a "/"
to directory names.

All other tar formats I've seen add "/" at the end of directory names.
This includes SunOS tar when used without the -E flag.

For consistency, I propose to append the "/" to directory names if
required when parsing a tar file.

Thoughts?

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Re: [COMPRESS] Tar directory name format - append / ?

[Stefan Bodewig <bo...@apache.org>]

On 2010-05-10, sebb <se...@gmail.com> wrote:

> For consistency, I propose to append the "/" to directory names if
> required when parsing a tar file.

+1

Stefan

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