The nti() function that converts a number field from a tar header to a number
failed to decode GNU tar specific base-256 fields. I also added support for
decoding and encoding negative base-256 number fields.
The nti() function that converts a number field from a tar header to a number
failed to decode GNU tar specific base-256 fields. I also added support for
decoding and encoding negative base-256 number fields.
We don't need to create a temporary buffered binary or text file object just to
create an empty file.
Replace also os.fdopen(handle).close() by os.close(handle).
'latin-1' and 'utf-8'.
These are optimized in the Python Unicode implementation
to result in more direct processing, bypassing the codec
registry.
Also see issue11303.
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r88528 | lars.gustaebel | 2011-02-23 12:42:22 +0100 (Wed, 23 Feb 2011) | 16 lines
Issue #11224: Improved sparse file read support (r85916) introduced a
regression in _FileInFile which is used in file-like objects returned
by TarFile.extractfile(). The inefficient design of the
_FileInFile.read() method causes various dramatic side-effects and
errors:
- The data segment of a file member is read completely into memory
every(!) time a small block is accessed. This is not only slow
but may cause unexpected MemoryErrors with very large files.
- Reading members from compressed tar archives is even slower
because of the excessive backwards seeking which is done when the
same data segment is read over and over again.
- As a backwards seek on a TarFile opened in stream mode is not
possible, using extractfile() fails with a StreamError.
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regression in _FileInFile which is used in file-like objects returned
by TarFile.extractfile(). The inefficient design of the
_FileInFile.read() method causes various dramatic side-effects and
errors:
- The data segment of a file member is read completely into memory
every(!) time a small block is accessed. This is not only slow
but may cause unexpected MemoryErrors with very large files.
- Reading members from compressed tar archives is even slower
because of the excessive backwards seeking which is done when the
same data segment is read over and over again.
- As a backwards seek on a TarFile opened in stream mode is not
possible, using extractfile() fails with a StreamError.
keyword-only argument. The preceding positional argument was deprecated,
so it made no sense to add filter as a positional argument.
(Patch reviewed by Brian Curtin and Anthony Long.)
In order to create symlinks on Windows, SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege
is an account privilege that is required to be held by the user. Not only
must the privilege be enabled for the account, the activated privileges for
the currently running application must be adjusted to enable the requested
privilege.
Rather than exposing an additional function to be called prior to the user's
first os.symlink call, we handle the AdjustTokenPrivileges Windows API call
internally and only expose os.symlink when the privilege escalation was
successful.
Due to the change of only exposing os.symlink when it's available, we can
go back to the original test skipping methods of checking via `hasattr`.
extensions. Thus, in addition to GNUTYPE_SPARSE headers, sparse
information in pax headers created by GNU tar can now be decoded.
All three formats 0.0, 0.1 and 1.0 are supported.
On filesystems that support this, holes in files are now restored
whenever a sparse member is extracted.
Added Windows support for os.symlink when run on Windows 6.0 or greater,
aka Vista. Previous Windows versions will raise NotImplementedError
when trying to symlink.
Includes numerous test updates and additions to test_os, including
a symlink_support module because of the fact that privilege escalation
is required in order to run the tests to ensure that the user is able
to create symlinks. By default, accounts do not have the required
privilege, so the escalation code will have to be exposed later (or
documented on how to do so). I'll be following up with that work next.
Note that the tests use ctypes, which was agreed on during the PyCon
language summit.
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r81667 | lars.gustaebel | 2010-06-03 14:34:14 +0200 (Thu, 03 Jun 2010) | 8 lines
Issue #8741: Fixed the TarFile.makelink() method that is responsible
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.
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r81665 | lars.gustaebel | 2010-06-03 12:11:52 +0200 (Thu, 03 Jun 2010) | 11 lines
Merged revisions 81663 via svnmerge from
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r81663 | lars.gustaebel | 2010-06-03 11:56:22 +0200 (Thu, 03 Jun 2010) | 4 lines
Issue #8833: tarfile created hard link entries with a size
field != 0 by mistake. The associated testcase did not
expose this bug because it was broken too.
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r81663 | lars.gustaebel | 2010-06-03 11:56:22 +0200 (Thu, 03 Jun 2010) | 4 lines
Issue #8833: tarfile created hard link entries with a size
field != 0 by mistake. The associated testcase did not
expose this bug because it was broken too.
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tarfile is now able to read and write pax headers with a
"hdrcharset=BINARY" record. This record was introduced in
POSIX.1-2008 as a method to store unencoded binary strings that
cannot be translated to UTF-8. In practice, this is just a workaround
that allows a tar implementation to store filenames that do not
comply with the current filesystem encoding and thus cannot be
decoded correctly.
Additionally, tarfile works around a bug in current versions of GNU
tar: undecodable filenames are stored as-is in a pax header without a
"hdrcharset" record being added. Technically, these headers are
invalid, but tarfile manages to read them correctly anyway.
Lars Gustäbel
Victor Stinner
Georg Brandl
Senthil Kumaran
Senthil Kumaran
Marc-André Lemburg
Raymond Hettinger
Brian Curtin
Ezio Melotti
Martin v. Löwis
Antoine Pitrou