tar/tests/append01.at

# Process this file with autom4te to create testsuite. -*- Autotest -*-

# Test suite for GNU tar.
# Copyright (C) 2005, 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

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# When decoding a header tar was assigning 0 to oldgnu_header.isextended,
# which destroyed name prefix. When updating archive, modified prefix
# could have been written to disk thus producing invalid archive member.
# Reported by Adye, TJ (Tim), <T.J.Adye@rl.ac.uk> 
# References:
#  <7231C15EAC2F164CA6DC326D97493C8B36C25D@exchange35.fed.cclrc.ac.uk>
#  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2005-02/msg00032.html
 
AT_SETUP([appending files with long names])
AT_KEYWORDS([append append01])

m4_define([PREFIX],[This_is_a_very_long_file_name_prefix_that_is_designed_to_cause_problems_with_appending_long_file_names_that_run_into_a_limit_of_the_ustar_tarX])

AT_TAR_CHECK([
mkdir PREFIX
touch PREFIX/file1 PREFIX/file2
tar cf archive PREFIX/file1
tar rf archive PREFIX/file2
tar tf archive
],
[0],
[PREFIX/file1
PREFIX/file2
],
[],[],[],[oldgnu, ustar, posix, gnu])

AT_CLEANUP