This is a replacement for the jk/big-and-future-archive-tar topic. It's
sufficiently rewritten that I won't bother with an interdiff, but rather
just describe the changes below. Thanks to René for talking through some
of the issues, and to Robin for suggesting the double-compression trick
for the tests.
The important changes here are:
- the "size" fix is more localized to write_tar_entry(). This results
in shorter code, and means that if one were to somehow write an
extended header larger than 8GB, we would notice and die(), rather
than just writing a "0" (though such a thing should not be
possible).
- the mtime is now written only in a single global header, rather than
once per file. I checked POSIX and this is explicitly allowed, and
of course I also checked that it works against GNU tar.
- there are now tests! I tried hard to make them portable and
efficient. See the first patch for details.
- the final patch is just a cleanup I noticed in the area; it could be
done independently, but I floated it to the end in case it's
controversial.
The patches are:
[1/4]: t5000: test tar files that overflow ustar headers
[2/4]: archive-tar: write extended headers for file sizes >= 8GB
[3/4]: archive-tar: write extended headers for far-future mtime
[4/4]: archive-tar: drop return value
-Peff
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