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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