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Re:The Hardest Tarball? by zahlman on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @03:05PM (#50445574)
> This tarball is one of 134 tricky tarballs that I'm collecting and categorizing in my test suite haampie/tar-minefield

Surely "tarpit" is a more natural name?

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Re:The Hardest Tarball? by woodruffw on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @03:43PM (#50446052)
I don’t know if ‘stabbles didn’t pick it for this reason, but `tarpit` is the low level tar inspection CLI that tar-codec provides.
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