[New-bugs-announce] [issue5869] 100th character truncation in 2.4 tarfile.py

[Neville Bagnall]

New submission from Neville Bagnall <neville.bagnall at propylon.com>:

When tarinfo.name is exactly 100 characters long, the last character is
truncated in the tarfile

Attached patch contains the extremely simple fix.

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components: Library (Lib)
files: tarfile.patch
keywords: patch
messages: 86759
nosy: neville.bagnall
severity: normal
status: open
title: 100th character truncation in 2.4 tarfile.py
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.4
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file13806/tarfile.patch

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