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4494	tar VFS problem in 4.8.30	Toolybird	andrew_b	"There is an odd problem with tar VFS in 4.8.30. The problem does not exhibit in 4.8.29. I am on Arch Linux and at least 1 other user can reproduce the issue.

Steps to reproduce:

1. curl -O https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/core/os/x86_64/gcc-13.2.1-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
2. open the file ""gcc-13.2.1-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst"" in mc
3. navigate to /usr/bin inside the archive
4. copy (F5) the file ""gcc"" somewhere e.g. /tmp
5. outside of mc, execute `file /tmp/gcc'

It will show the file type as:

""POSIX tar archive""

When of course it should be:

""ELF 64-bit LSB executable""

I haven't git bisected (yet) but I do note some new tar functionality mentioned in the 4.8.30 release notes.

Thanks"	defect	closed	major	4.8.31	mc-vfs	4.8.30	fixed					merged	committed-master