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| author | Ian Wienand <ianw@vmware.com> | 2011-07-29 08:33:47 +0200 |
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| committer | Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> | 2011-07-29 08:33:47 +0200 |
| commit | 954dbd3a004dcb8df7e1e7283c4e249e02a300a4 (patch) | |
| tree | 60ab58ccd4bafab71172fac13c3a9acbae54c67a /archival/libarchive | |
| parent | 67905e2d7c6ee273b753af22fb22de0ebec918c1 (diff) | |
tar: ignore file size (assume 0) for hardlinks
Signed-off-by: Ian Wienand <ianw@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'archival/libarchive')
| -rw-r--r-- | archival/libarchive/get_header_tar.c | 16 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/archival/libarchive/get_header_tar.c b/archival/libarchive/get_header_tar.c index f73cd338e..79caff55a 100644 --- a/archival/libarchive/get_header_tar.c +++ b/archival/libarchive/get_header_tar.c @@ -348,10 +348,20 @@ char FAST_FUNC get_header_tar(archive_handle_t *archive_handle) /* Set bits 12-15 of the files mode */ /* (typeflag was not trashed because chksum does not use getOctal) */ switch (tar.typeflag) { - /* busybox identifies hard links as being regular files with 0 size and a link name */ - case '1': + case '1': /* hardlink */ + /* we mark hardlinks as regular files with zero size and a link name */ file_header->mode |= S_IFREG; - break; + /* on size of link fields from star(4) + * ... For tar archives written by pre POSIX.1-1988 + * implementations, the size field usually contains the size of + * the file and needs to be ignored as no data may follow this + * header type. For POSIX.1- 1988 compliant archives, the size + * field needs to be 0. For POSIX.1-2001 compliant archives, + * the size field may be non zero, indicating that file data is + * included in the archive. + * i.e; always assume this is zero for safety. + */ + goto size0; case '7': /* case 0: */ case '0': |