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Re: CVS commit: src/external/bsd/libarchive/dist/libarchive

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On Mon, Aug 24, 2026 at 11:35:02AM -0400, Mouse wrote:
> > While the unix-ish interpretation that mouse potinted at is great
> > when using the archive in the same context it was created, it forces
> > other extractors to guess the encoding, which is pretty bad.
> 
> Unix pathnames have historically been octet strings, uninterpreted
> except for slash and NUL.  I would certainly *hope* that they still are
> at the syscall level; anything else is IMO a "renders it unusable" bug.
> Treating filenames as character strings anywhere but user presentation
> leads directly to a large morass of trouble.
> 

Plus, IMHO, that one legitimately expects an archiver to be "lossless"
i.e. it extracts exactly what it has instructed to archive. If there is
any modification (except if explicitely requested so definitively not
by default) or if there is any loss of information, the utility should
not be called an archiver.
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Re: CVS commit: src/external/bsd/libarchive/dist/libarchive Taylor R Campbell <riastradh@NetBSD.org> - 2026-08-24 12:42 +0000
  Re: CVS commit: src/external/bsd/libarchive/dist/libarchive Thomas Klausner <wiz@netbsd.org> - 2026-08-24 14:55 +0200
    Re: CVS commit: src/external/bsd/libarchive/dist/libarchive Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de> - 2026-08-24 15:15 +0200
      Re: CVS commit: src/external/bsd/libarchive/dist/libarchive Greg Troxel <gdt@lexort.com> - 2026-08-24 09:23 -0400
        Re: CVS commit: src/external/bsd/libarchive/dist/libarchive Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de> - 2026-08-24 15:57 +0200
          Re: CVS commit: src/external/bsd/libarchive/dist/libarchive Mouse <mouse@Rodents-Montreal.ORG> - 2026-08-24 11:35 -0400
            Re: CVS commit: src/external/bsd/libarchive/dist/libarchive tlaronde@kergis.com - 2026-08-24 17:53 +0200
      Re: CVS commit: src/external/bsd/libarchive/dist/libarchive Crystal Kolipe <kolipe.c@exoticsilicon.com> - 2026-08-24 13:46 +0000
    Re: CVS commit: src/external/bsd/libarchive/dist/libarchive Mouse <mouse@Rodents-Montreal.ORG> - 2026-08-24 09:22 -0400
    Re: CVS commit: src/external/bsd/libarchive/dist/libarchive Taylor R Campbell <riastradh@NetBSD.org> - 2026-08-24 14:01 +0000
      Re: CVS commit: src/external/bsd/libarchive/dist/libarchive Thomas Klausner <wiz@netbsd.org> - 2026-08-24 16:23 +0200
        Re: CVS commit: src/external/bsd/libarchive/dist/libarchive Taylor R Campbell <riastradh@NetBSD.org> - 2026-08-24 14:52 +0000
          Re: CVS commit: src/external/bsd/libarchive/dist/libarchive Thomas Klausner <wiz@netbsd.org> - 2026-08-24 20:23 +0200
      Re: CVS commit: src/external/bsd/libarchive/dist/libarchive Taylor R Campbell <riastradh@NetBSD.org> - 2026-08-24 14:38 +0000

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