[COMPRESS-109] Tar implementation does not support Pax headers

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.1
• Assignee: Sebb
• Reporter: Sebb
• Created: 09/May/10 20:20
• Updated: 10/May/10 14:44
• Resolved: 10/May/10 14:44

Description

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.