Patch #995126: Correct directory size, and generate GNU tarfiles by default.
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libtarfile.tex b/Doc/lib/libtarfile.tex
index c841123..ce07c3e 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libtarfile.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libtarfile.tex
@@ -261,7 +261,8 @@
gigabytes. A \exception{ValueError} is raised if a file exceeds
this limit. If false, create a GNU tar compatible archive. It
will not be \POSIX{} compliant, but can store files without any
- of the above restrictions.
+ of the above restrictions.
+ \versionchanged[\var{posix} defaults to false.]{2.4}
\end{memberdesc}
\begin{memberdesc}{dereference}
diff --git a/Lib/tarfile.py b/Lib/tarfile.py
index 64d006d..ba5a1d2 100644
--- a/Lib/tarfile.py
+++ b/Lib/tarfile.py
@@ -781,7 +781,7 @@
# messages (if debug >= 0). If > 0, errors
# are passed to the caller as exceptions.
- posix = True # If True, generates POSIX.1-1990-compliant
+ posix = False # If True, generates POSIX.1-1990-compliant
# archives (no GNU extensions!)
fileobject = ExFileObject
@@ -1137,7 +1137,7 @@
tarinfo.mode = stmd
tarinfo.uid = statres.st_uid
tarinfo.gid = statres.st_gid
- tarinfo.size = statres.st_size
+ tarinfo.size = not stat.S_ISDIR(stmd) and statres.st_size or 0
tarinfo.mtime = statres.st_mtime
tarinfo.type = type
tarinfo.linkname = linkname
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index c6857dc..184c15c 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -44,6 +44,8 @@
Library
-------
+- tarfile now generates GNU tar files by default.
+
- HTTPResponse has now a getheaders method.
- Patch #1006219: let inspect.getsource handle '@' decorators. Thanks Simon