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| author | Lars Gustäbel <lars@gustaebel.de> | 2010-05-17 18:02:50 +0000 |
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| committer | Lars Gustäbel <lars@gustaebel.de> | 2010-05-17 18:02:50 +0000 |
| commit | d4ad7546b2d21099ac1ac7e7121045cd40854ff7 (patch) | |
| tree | b67ce228b8f6da67575f005ba9c023978a058480 /Lib/test/testtar.tar | |
| parent | 028e57b46b66ed393cf96aee3cd4d6ab4118068c (diff) | |
| download | cpython-d4ad7546b2d21099ac1ac7e7121045cd40854ff7.tar.gz | |
Issue #8633: Support for POSIX.1-2008 binary pax headers.
tarfile is now able to read and write pax headers with a
"hdrcharset=BINARY" record. This record was introduced in
POSIX.1-2008 as a method to store unencoded binary strings that
cannot be translated to UTF-8. In practice, this is just a workaround
that allows a tar implementation to store filenames that do not
comply with the current filesystem encoding and thus cannot be
decoded correctly.
Additionally, tarfile works around a bug in current versions of GNU
tar: undecodable filenames are stored as-is in a pax header without a
"hdrcharset" record being added. Technically, these headers are
invalid, but tarfile manages to read them correctly anyway.
Diffstat (limited to 'Lib/test/testtar.tar')
| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/test/testtar.tar | bin | 272384 -> 289792 bytes |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/test/testtar.tar b/Lib/test/testtar.tar Binary files differindex b5bb46b16e..c3022ed196 100644 --- a/Lib/test/testtar.tar +++ b/Lib/test/testtar.tar |