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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: "René Scharfe" <l.s.r@web.de>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
	Keegan Carruthers-Smith <keegan.csmith@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git archive generates tar with malformed pax extended attribute
Date: Sat, 25 May 2019 15:46:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tvdi3aw2.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b4aaff4b-eaf7-9eaf-063f-42c073078060@web.de> ("René Scharfe"'s message of "Sat, 25 May 2019 15:26:53 +0200")

On Mai 25 2019, René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> wrote:

> Can Unicode symlink targets contain NULs?  We wouldn't want to damage
> them even if we decide to truncate.

The POSIX interface doesn't allow creating such a symlink, since the
argument to symlink is a C string.

Andreas.

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-05-25 13:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-24  6:45 git archive generates tar with malformed pax extended attribute Keegan Carruthers-Smith
2019-05-24  7:06 ` Jeff King
2019-05-24  7:35   ` Keegan Carruthers-Smith
2019-05-24  8:13     ` Jeff King
2019-05-25 13:26       ` René Scharfe
2019-05-25 13:46         ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2019-05-25 21:07         ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-05-26 21:33           ` René Scharfe
2019-05-28  5:44             ` Jeff King
2019-05-28  5:58         ` Jeff King
2019-05-28 18:01           ` René Scharfe
2019-05-28 19:08             ` Jeff King
2019-05-28 23:34               ` René Scharfe
2019-05-29  1:17                 ` Jeff King
2019-05-29 17:54                   ` René Scharfe
2019-05-30 11:55                     ` Jeff King
2019-06-02 16:58                       ` René Scharfe
2019-06-04 20:53                         ` Jeff King
2019-05-27  5:11       ` Keegan Carruthers-Smith
2019-05-25 20:46   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-05-25 21:19     ` brian m. carlson

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