From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]) by ur; Fri Oct 23 04:31:04 EDT 2015 Received: from compute6.internal (compute6.nyi.internal [10.202.2.46]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 791A920361 for <9front@9front.org>; Fri, 23 Oct 2015 04:31:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from web3 ([10.202.2.213]) by compute6.internal (MEProxy); Fri, 23 Oct 2015 04:31:01 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=fastmail.fm; h= content-transfer-encoding:content-type:date:from:message-id :mime-version:subject:to:x-sasl-enc:x-sasl-enc; s=mesmtp; bh=uqV CJ5UZpiumR8Tlt5py4FrM0/M=; b=Cq5mzr06t9UwcGsGVEvvg7pLbOLVp1lJ+us mV4W88IyjM1ZurqSIwXuhkngofkc5wYq19WVzHf64ZcrIJ8Za0+YD1CrNI0JtxOt Us6rgZoUVm2fFFi/SvSg1NkbEzcsI7WXCCI/JNVOpoG9SQJKuirkfwkVcG/wFN7I W6BFU4W8= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=content-transfer-encoding:content-type :date:from:message-id:mime-version:subject:to:x-sasl-enc :x-sasl-enc; s=smtpout; bh=uqVCJ5UZpiumR8Tlt5py4FrM0/M=; b=CXqZB F8HuH+h4x9Wx4iK+qvr/f+7fXFzLSgt+n63L9t1TAi3t/oO3WyEPDoWJqviCQcxZ goo/Bk/6SzPcc14HJGw6Kr0/xDf58G97Z9MiB8L8d3e44DiuUo1wuXJw+eVqvx4T x8RcMKU+/3MKCBl5Ha2MDrYIiyCs8hSV5FGXUY= Received: by web3.nyi.internal (Postfix, from userid 99) id 366EC1119E2; Fri, 23 Oct 2015 04:31:01 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <1445589061.319954.418146089.3C87CB29@webmail.messagingengine.com> List-ID: <9front.9front.org> List-Help: X-Glyph: ➈ X-Bullshit: self-signing strategy X-Sasl-Enc: TvwiN+q2qGEM81/u2CHUhLs/Y4u3aSO0AKu4N8T88abh 1445589061 From: Ethan Grammatikidis To: 9front@9front.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain X-Mailer: MessagingEngine.com Webmail Interface - ajax-25d3ec43 Subject: tar: spurious name length limit Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2015 09:31:01 +0100 tar(1) claims the program defaults to ustar format which allows path names of up to 256 characters long. tar however will reject paths over 100 characters regardless of format. i had a 153-character path rejected regardless of whether i left it at the default or specified -p (which specifies ustar). apologies if this has been fixed since june.