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Re: Test cases that are possible candidates for a waiver



>From kukuk@suse.de Sun Dec 16 20:00:03 2001

>> Mmm there are at last 2 different progras calling themselve 'pax'.
>> If you mean the pax implementation tat comes with Solaris 8 ff.
>> it seems to be easy to get better results than for pax as this pax
>> implementation does not compute checksums correctly in extract or
>> list mode.

>All pax implementations I know of do it the "Solaris" way. I think
>this could be a big problem if all pax implementatins compute the
>chksum wrong :-(

Well the standard requires the checksum to be computed over 512 bytes
of the header and it seems that pax only computes the sum over the
first 500 bytes.

>> Could you please point me to the latest TAR test suite so I can do 
>> the tests myself too?

>They are part of the LSB test suite.

Does this mean that the file "LSB-VSX1.0-1.tar.gz" is OK for testing?

Jörg

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