bug in BSD tar?

[Colin Percival]

Steven Hartland wrote:
> When compressing files with specific filenames it appears that BSD
> tar is creating invalid archives which when handed to gnutar to
         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> expand it errors with the following:
> [log]
> tar -xvzf test.tar.gz
> tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.dev'
> tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.ino'
> tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.nlink'
> cantiquedeno\353l1_loop.wav
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> [/log]

This looks like fairly typical symptoms of gnutar being broken.  What
makes you think that the archive created by BSD tar was invalid?

Colin Percival