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 06:10:08 EDT 2015 Received: from compute4.internal (compute4.nyi.internal [10.202.2.44]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id B958120762 for <9front@9front.org>; Fri, 23 Oct 2015 06:10:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: from web3 ([10.202.2.213]) by compute4.internal (MEProxy); Fri, 23 Oct 2015 06:10:05 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=fastmail.fm; h= content-transfer-encoding:content-type:date:from:in-reply-to :message-id:mime-version:references:subject:to:x-sasl-enc :x-sasl-enc; s=mesmtp; bh=vVlUqXVDINmCXShDVMPGSyCzJko=; b=C7bCQ1 pnIo+Jkl2MzoN1vm/AYc01ggH0eswjyLxYHuG6m8YpNFiv+YD2ja1DqCmb7qnljP DmAP88UkQBOg8+9CWvRtsKQUs1GdFAw0LiN4b+s2Ef6d1ZcwWBQotsigoX4Y3Q5M PMbNNkhRT/uqg4TljRLedDbzojyUXTQre+Wyk= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=content-transfer-encoding:content-type :date:from:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version:references :subject:to:x-sasl-enc:x-sasl-enc; s=smtpout; bh=vVlUqXVDINmCXSh DVMPGSyCzJko=; b=qhpx6KVspR95ZO2AAkbIQLWTFMz+UKp0TvzzEwiZSDp9MZO 95VWQ36bWgjO/VLF+B5f8qwRgO+8123H8Ow1LZVDE1T7WVmqOAsIl3zAbzbz+9di iFeRMeYBcqy3PL4H3k7Cn4nvVAthM7t12kNjnoQYyH8luDUApCvYeopV4PVw= Received: by web3.nyi.internal (Postfix, from userid 99) id 8558D102674; Fri, 23 Oct 2015 06:10:05 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <1445595005.1107634.418212961.6A95B208@webmail.messagingengine.com> List-ID: <9front.9front.org> List-Help: X-Glyph: ➈ X-Bullshit: information-aware extension ORM session wrapper package X-Sasl-Enc: 5ghvUrhQMWuSm8MM7iebOWL76jPD1VoLuZmFpG++Jngi 1445595005 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: Re: [9front] tar: spurious name length limit Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2015 11:10:05 +0100 In-Reply-To: <1445589061.319954.418146089.3C87CB29@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <1445589061.319954.418146089.3C87CB29@webmail.messagingengine.com> On Fri, Oct 23, 2015, at 09:31 AM, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: > 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. alternate possibility: tar fails to actually set the format to ustar internally. -- Wir mussen wissen, wir werden wissen.