* Make it more obvious gettarinfo() is based on stat(), and that non-ordinary
files may need special care
* Filename taken from fileobj.name; suggest dummy arcname as a workaround
* Indicate TarInfo may be used directly, not just via gettarinfo()
requires them. Disable executable bits and shebang lines in test and
benchmark files in order to prevent using a random system python, and in
source files of modules which don't provide command line interface.
Passing a unicode filename to tarfile.open() along with mode "w|gz" failed
with a UnicodeError because the filename was not encoded properly before being
written to the gzipped stream in the FNAME extra field.
tarfile unnecessarily checked the existence of numerical user and group ids on
extraction. If one of them did not exist the respective id of the current user
(i.e. root) was used for the file and ownership information was lost. (Patch
by Sebastien Luttringer)
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/py3k
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r85211 | lars.gustaebel | 2010-10-04 17:18:47 +0200 (Mon, 04 Oct 2010) | 14 lines
Issue #9065: no longer use "root" as the default for the
uname and gname field.
If tarfile creates a new archive and adds a file with a
uid/gid that doesn't have a corresponding name on the
system (e.g. because the user/group account was deleted) it
uses the empty string in the uname/gname field now instead
of "root". Using "root" as the default was a bad idea
because on extraction the uname/gname fields are supposed
to override the uid/gid fields. So, all archive members
with nameless uids/gids belonged to the root user after
extraction.
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for extracting symbolic and hard link entries as regular files as a
work-around on platforms that do not support filesystem links.
This stopped working reliably after a change in r74571. I also added
a few tests for this functionality.
to "sys.platform == 'mac'" and that is
dead code because it refers to a platform
that is no longer supported (and hasn't been
supported for several releases).
Fixes issue #7908 for the trunk.
