Tim Kientzle

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I realized that there is an argument for using the name from the central directory -- it would speed up table of contents listing if we didn't seek to the...

Designing things is hard. On the whole, I would say the Zip format has held up pretty well.

Is there documentation somewhere for the CMT format? I'd like to know more about it. There is already some precedent for libarchive extracting special files of various sorts, so it...

To be clear: * I **DO NOT** want libarchive to ever execute such scripts. Not even as an option. * So _at most_ I would support libarchive providing a way...

It would be better to fix the tests. For example, `test_read_disk` is here trying to verify that libarchive is in fact able to look up names from user IDs. To...

Hmmm.... yeah, parsing the /etc/passwd file seems like going a bit too far. Hmmm... Here's an idea... Maybe that test could directly queried the OS for each user on a...

I _really_ do NOT want to parse /etc/passwd.

That sounds like a good way to resolve this. Would you like to try putting together a PR?

> I don't think this was intended to prevent denial of service as such, ... Actually, just last year I did a major overhaul of the pax decoding explicitly to...

> Note also that libarchive hard codes the raw value for the maximum size of an xattr value; this seems like a weird choice but I have been unable to...