id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc	blockedby	blocking	branch_state	votes
2306	posix tar does not handle long filenames	jendap		"Standard posix tar files have long filenames in extended headers (header ""path=/some/very/long/filename"").

The header is simply skipped now - see ""Skip over pax extended header and global extended header records."" in tar.c

Steps to reproduce the tar file:
echo ""foo"" >very_0_very_1_very_2_very_3_very_4_very_5_very_6_very_7_very_8_very_9_very_10_very_11_very_12_long_filename
tar cf foo.tar --format=posix very*


BTW: This is important especially in java world as there are deep directories and long filenames - virtually no tar file of any java project can be opened correctly in mc."	defect	closed	major		mc-vfs		duplicate					no branch