bug in BSD tar?

Steven Hartland killing at multiplay.co.uk
Tue May 29 00:27:52 UTC 2007


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Colin Percival" <cperciva at freebsd.org>
>> 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?

As a filename should have no bearing on what extended headers
are set.

    Steve

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