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,,,,,,