Re: [dwm] [announce] sltar-0.2.1

Yay :) awesome source :)

It works fine for me. The gzip/bzip support is useless so you can pipe't
with zcat/bzcat, the only thing i miss is the 'c' flag :)

I usually like to untar with verbose mode which (theorically) would be
the same than specifying -t and -x (list contents and extract).

If you want to add compatibility with standard tar or pax you should
add -v -z and -j...but srsly..these flags looks like a joke to me, but
sometimes is useful for comodity.

  - v : verbose.. why if we have -t ? .. maybe we should rename t as v?
  - z : gzip ( !"gzip"~=/^z/ )
  - j : bzip2 ( !"bzip2"~=/j/ )

About security...i must say that it will need some file creation checks.

 - It doesn't stops or warns if a mknod/chown fails
 - does not checks for crosspath filenames like ../../../etc/passwd
 - does not checks for headers or invalid data
   - can cause the creation of wrong filenames (binary stuff)

PD: Can you add RSS to your blog? :)

PD2: This program makes me think about a future suckless-like OS

--pancake

On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 05:09:43PM +0100, Enno Gottox Boland wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I wrote a very small tarball extractor: (73sloc).
>
> tar.gz:
> http://s01.de/~gottox/files/sltar/sltar-0.2.1.tar.gz
>
> Mercurial:
> http://s01.de/~gottox/hg/sltar
>
> Project page:
> http://s01.de/~gottox/index.cgi/proj_sltar
>
> Please notice that sltar can only extract and list contents of an
> uncompressed tarball.
> It's very minimalistic, but it works very well :)
>
> Please report any bugs.
>
> regards
> Gottox
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Received on Wed Dec 19 2007 - 18:00:14 UTC