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authorGlenn L McGrath2004-02-19 08:48:30 +0000
committerGlenn L McGrath2004-02-19 08:48:30 +0000
commitb0e163a93bbfd6f90e41a67256ca57217bce54be (patch)
tree9eafea958d67eed91dfdc5134606fabb3383562c /archival
parente7d244cc962c2aae6a153c6e5cf07efbbed7cb94 (diff)
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Add extra comments, freakout if a pax archive is encoutered.
Diffstat (limited to 'archival')
-rw-r--r--archival/libunarchive/get_header_tar.c33
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/archival/libunarchive/get_header_tar.c b/archival/libunarchive/get_header_tar.c
index fbca0f2..013450a 100644
--- a/archival/libunarchive/get_header_tar.c
+++ b/archival/libunarchive/get_header_tar.c
@@ -16,6 +16,11 @@
* FIXME: Better checking required in oldcompatability mode,
* the file db.1.85.tar.gz from sleepycat.com has trailing garbage
* GNU tar can handle it, busybox tar reports invalid tar header.
+ *
+ * References:
+ * GNU tar and star man pages,
+ * Opengroup's ustar interchange format,
+ * http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/utilities/pax.html
*/
#include <stdio.h>
@@ -122,6 +127,14 @@ extern char get_header_tar(archive_handle_t *archive_handle)
/* Fix mode, used by the old format */
switch (tar.formated.typeflag) {
+ /* busybox identifies hard links as being regular files with 0 size and a link name */
+ case '1':
+ file_header->mode &= (S_IFREG | 07777);
+ break;
+ case 'x':
+ case 'g':
+ bb_error_msg_and_die("pax is not tar");
+ break;
#ifdef CONFIG_FEATURE_TAR_OLDGNU_COMPATABILITY
case 0:
case '0':
@@ -146,11 +159,11 @@ extern char get_header_tar(archive_handle_t *archive_handle)
case '6':
file_header->mode |= S_IFIFO;
break;
-#endif
- /* hard links are detected as regular files with 0 size and a link name */
- case '1':
- file_header->mode &= (S_IFREG | 07777);
+ case '7':
+ /* Reserved for high performance files, treat as normal file */
+ file_header->mode |= S_IFREG;
break;
+#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_FEATURE_TAR_GNU_EXTENSIONS
case 'L': {
longname = xmalloc(file_header->size + 1);
@@ -169,13 +182,15 @@ extern char get_header_tar(archive_handle_t *archive_handle)
file_header->name = linkname;
return(get_header_tar(archive_handle));
}
- case 'D':
- case 'M':
- case 'N':
- case 'S':
- case 'V':
+ case 'D': /* GNU dump dir */
+ case 'M': /* Continuation of multi volume archive*/
+ case 'N': /* Old GNU for names > 100 characters */
+ case 'S': /* Sparse file */
+ case 'V': /* Volume header */
bb_error_msg("Ignoring GNU extension type %c", tar.formated.typeflag);
#endif
+ default:
+ bb_error_msg("Unknown typeflag: 0x%x", tar.formated.typeflag);
}
{ /* Strip trailing '/' in directories */
/* Must be done after mode is set as '/' is used to check if its a directory */