astral-sh/tar-codec

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A strict, constrained, async tar encoder/decoder for Rust

Stars: 9
Forks: 3
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 18
Avg merge: 9m
Merged PRs (30d): 3

Dominant language: Rust
License: Apache-2.0
Last GitHub push: Aug 26, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 14, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
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18 open issues indexed

Expose policy-validated effective TAR metadata before projection Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

astral-sh/tar-codec#120 · 4 comments · Opened Sep 5, 2026
Expose byte-preserving member paths and link targets when decoding Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

astral-sh/tar-codec#118 · Opened Aug 28, 2026
Test extracts_through_deep_ambient_and_created_path in archive-trait reaches file descriptor limits Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

astral-sh/tar-codec#114 · Opened Aug 25, 2026
Chapter-aware encoding/decoding Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

astral-sh/tar-codec#105 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 3, 2026
Hard-link bodies are accepted without PAX linkdata Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

astral-sh/tar-codec#92 · 3 comments · Opened Jun 25, 2026
PAX overrides do not suppress validation of raw numeric fields Open

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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

astral-sh/tar-codec#90 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 25, 2026
Embedded NUL in an xattr PAX keyword is accepted Open

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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

astral-sh/tar-codec#74 · 3 comments · Opened Jun 24, 2026
Malformed unused device fields are accepted Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

astral-sh/tar-codec#63 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 24, 2026
Positive PAX numbers reject a leading plus sign Open

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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

astral-sh/tar-codec#60 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 24, 2026
Leading-NUL ordinary numeric metadata is rejected Open

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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

astral-sh/tar-codec#56 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 24, 2026
Wholly-space ordinary numeric metadata is rejected Open

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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

astral-sh/tar-codec#55 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 24, 2026
Leading-space ordinary numeric metadata is rejected Open

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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

astral-sh/tar-codec#54 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 24, 2026
Leading-space checksum encoding is rejected Open

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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

astral-sh/tar-codec#52 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 24, 2026
Full-width checksum field without a terminator Open

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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 64/100

astral-sh/tar-codec#51 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 24, 2026
Full-width octal numeric field without a terminator Open

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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 67/100

astral-sh/tar-codec#49 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 24, 2026
Consider supporting (some) permissions during extraction Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

astral-sh/tar-codec#28 · Opened Jun 12, 2026
Use rustc-hash? Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

astral-sh/tar-codec#9 · Opened Jun 3, 2026
Support GNU sparse members when decoding Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

astral-sh/tar-codec#6 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 2, 2026

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