Module header 

Constants

CHECKSUM_RANGE

The byte range that a member’s checksum appears at in a tar block, whether pax/ustar or GNU.

DEVMAJOR_RANGE

The byte range that a member’s device-major value appears at in a pax/ustar block.

DEVMINOR_RANGE

The byte range that a member’s device-minor value appears at in a pax/ustar block.

GID_RANGE

The byte range that a member’s group ID appears at in a tar block, whether pax/ustar or GNU.

GNAME_RANGE

The byte range that a member’s group name appears at in a pax/ustar block.

GNU_IDENTITY

The magic and version bytes for a GNU tar block. Note that, despite not having the proper ustar identity, a GNU tar block uses a strict superset of the ustar typeflags.

IDENTITY_RANGE

The byte range that a member’s identity appears at in a tar block, whether pax/ustar or GNU.

LINK_NAME_RANGE

The byte range that a member’s link name (i.e. link target) appears at in a tar block, whether pax/ustar or GNU.

MODE_RANGE

The byte range that a member’s mode appears at in a tar block, whether pax/ustar or GNU.

MTIME_RANGE

The byte range that a member’s mtime appears at in a tar block, whether pax/ustar or GNU.

NAME_RANGE

The byte range that a member name appears at in a tar block, whether pax/ustar or GNU.

PREFIX_RANGE

The byte range that a member’s checksum appears at in a tar block.

SIZE_RANGE

The byte range that a member’s size appears at in a tar block, whether pax/ustar or GNU.

TYPEFLAG_OFFSET

The byte index that a member’s typeflag appears at in a tar block, whether pax/ustar or GNU.

UID_RANGE

The byte range that a member’s user ID appears at in a tar block, whether pax/ustar or GNU.

UNAME_RANGE

The byte range that a member’s user name appears at in a pax/ustar block.

USTAR_IDENTITY

The magic and version bytes for a ustar tar block. ustar blocks form the baseline for pax, since every pax block is a well-formed ustar block (and what makes it pax is whether it uses a pax typeflag).