[PATCH] Teach rtems_tarfs_load() about symlinks

[Nick Withers]

Anyone be interested in committing this?

On Fri, 2014-03-07 at 14:37 +1100, Nick Withers wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> The attached patch teaches rtems_tarfs_load() about symlinks, as well as
> making it fail if it encounters an unsupported tar file entry type
> (e.g., hard links) rather than silently ignoring the 512 B block.
> 
> It tries to be consistent with the existing code which doesn't e.g.
> check tar string field NUL termination or printf() on error.
-- 
Nick Withers

Embedded Systems Programmer
Department of Nuclear Physics, Research School of Physics and Engineering
The Australian National University (CRICOS: 00120C)
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