[ python-Bugs-1471427 ] tarfile.py chokes on long names

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Bugs item #1471427, was opened at 2006-04-16 22:34
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Category: Python Library
Group: Python 2.5
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Alexander Schremmer (alexanderweb)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: tarfile.py chokes on long names

Initial Comment:
The following bug is reproducible on Py 2.4.3 and 2.5. 
It was tested on Windows. You need a tarfile with a 
long file name that triggers the GNU LONGNAME 
extension.

Extracting such a file gives me an IO error because it 
tries to create a file with a slash at the end. This is 
because 

        # Some old tar programs represent a directory 
as a regular
        # file with a trailing slash.
        if tarinfo.isreg() and tarinfo.name.endswith("/
"):
            tarinfo.type = DIRTYPE

sets the type incorrectly after it was called from the 
callback proc which has no possiblity to set the name 
of the intermediary tarinfo class because it is 
instantiated in the next-method.

So this yields a directory which should be a file which 
is obviously wrong. Might be related to commit 41340 
"Patch #1338314, Bug #1336623". (At least the code 
changed there is causing this bug).

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>Comment By: Alexander Schremmer (alexanderweb)
Date: 2006-04-16 22:34

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Hmm, I just want to clarify that tarfile doesn't give the IO 
error (it passes silently) but my code that expects a file 
instead of a directory ;-)

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