uzip extfs sanity patch
Pavel Machek
pavel at suse.cz
Mon Dec 9 09:38:27 UTC 2002
Hi!
> > Extfs should be fixed to use some sane format,
> > not ls -l... Fish has one quite reasonable...
>
> This is quite irrelevant here. If the format of the archive allows 15th
> month (which would be impossible if time_t was used) and the archiver is
> stupid enough to output the date as is, no amount of armoring the date can
> make it valid.
Well, if fish-like format was used, something like
Nfile_name
Dsome_unparsable_junk
Prwxr--r--
would be passed to midnight. Midnight would refuse to interpret date,
but its parser would not be confused by that junk and would interpret
other fields properly...
Pavel
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