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authorGlenn L McGrath2004-04-09 06:59:05 +0000
committerGlenn L McGrath2004-04-09 06:59:05 +0000
commit958ac18d4efe68fdad8dfae15355b7fd27452a2d (patch)
tree24ee90fa3ecbd101e78cf7bbe526ef247a9a97ae
parent32da885a91e0120dfd4c9334262ff923d824599b (diff)
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Add a comment explaining why we have to check for an extra \n
-rw-r--r--archival/libunarchive/get_header_ar.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/archival/libunarchive/get_header_ar.c b/archival/libunarchive/get_header_ar.c
index 86e0bc0..ebb6f8c 100644
--- a/archival/libunarchive/get_header_ar.c
+++ b/archival/libunarchive/get_header_ar.c
@@ -47,7 +47,9 @@ extern char get_header_ar(archive_handle_t *archive_handle)
return(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
- /* Some ar entries have a trailing '\n' after the previous data entry */
+ /* ar header starts on an even byte (2 byte aligned)
+ * '\n' is used for padding
+ */
if (ar.raw[0] == '\n') {
/* fix up the header, we started reading 1 byte too early */
memmove(ar.raw, &ar.raw[1], 59);