[COMPRESS-179] TarUtils.formatLongOctalOrBinaryBytes() assumes the field will be 12 bytes long

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.4
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Sebb
• Created: 21/Feb/12 20:14
• Updated: 23/Feb/12 00:36
• Resolved: 23/Feb/12 00:36

Description

The TarUtils.formatLongOctalOrBinaryBytes method currently assumes that the field can hold 11 octal bytes.

This is not necessarily the case; the uid and gid fields (8 bytes) can potentially be encoded as binary.