1 # Process this file with autom4te to create testsuite. -*- Autotest -*-
3 # Test suite for GNU tar.
4 # Copyright (C) 2005, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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21 # When decoding a header tar was assigning 0 to oldgnu_header.isextended,
22 # which destroyed name prefix. When updating archive, modified prefix
23 # could have been written to disk thus producing invalid archive member.
24 # Reported by Adye, TJ (Tim), <T.J.Adye@rl.ac.uk>
26 # <7231C15EAC2F164CA6DC326D97493C8B36C25D@exchange35.fed.cclrc.ac.uk>
27 # http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2005-02/msg00032.html
29 AT_SETUP([appending files with long names])
30 AT_KEYWORDS([append append01])
32 m4_define([PREFIX],[This_is_a_very_long_file_name_prefix_that_is_designed_to_cause_problems_with_appending_long_file_names_that_run_into_a_limit_of_the_ustar_tarX])
36 touch PREFIX/file1 PREFIX/file2
37 tar cf archive PREFIX/file1
38 tar rf archive PREFIX/file2
45 [],[],[],[oldgnu, ustar, posix, gnu])