[C-prog-lang-l] TAR header

[Илья Завидный]

Mr.Pechanec,

Thank you for the clarification!
I was confused because in the assignment.txt there was the following line:
mytar -f archive.tar -c file* (line 89) So I thought that our program
should be able to archive files too.

Best regards,
Ilia Zavidni

On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 8:23 PM Jan Pechanec <jp at devnull.cz> wrote:

> On Thu, 20 May 2021, Илья Завидный wrote:
>
> >Hello,
> >
> >In the tar header file there are such entries as uid, gid, magic,
> linkname,
> >devmajor, etc.
> >When creating an archive are we also supposed to write smth to those
> >entries? If so then how would we get those entries (to be honest I am not
> >sure what they are in the first place :D)?
>
> Ilia,
>
> the assignment does not ask you to create the archive, you only list
> and extract files from an existing archive created via GNU tar.
>
> When extracting the files, just create them with fopen() and ignore
> those fields you mentioned above.
>
> Jan
>
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