Using the python tarfile module to extract file from a tar archive silently fail when the file names are too long

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Issue

  • Using the python tarfile module to extract file from a tar archive silently fail when the file names are too long.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • python-2.4.3-27.el5

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