miscellaneous fixes and improvements #104
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Allowing the
Tar.list
callback to receive the raw header data (especially in the form of a vector of fields) is highly useful for analyzing wild tarballs. I implemented this when working on adding support for hard links so that I could look at a tarball containing hard links more easily.Adding a
Header
method that takes an existingHeader
object and modifies some of its fields is a pattern that's used in various places in the code base which this method makes cleaner and clearer.This makes all cases where the end of a tarball is encountered before it is expected throw the same
EOFError
whereas previously some places threw that error while others threw a generic error with a premature end of file message.This changes also makes the definition of a
skip
method for processes conditional so that when testing with a Julia version that hasTar
as a stdlib (and thus already has this method defined), we don't break precompilation by redefining that method.