From 958ac18d4efe68fdad8dfae15355b7fd27452a2d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Glenn L McGrath <bug1@ihug.co.nz>
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2004 06:59:05 +0000
Subject: Add a comment explaining why we have to check for an extra \n

---
 archival/libunarchive/get_header_ar.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'archival')

diff --git a/archival/libunarchive/get_header_ar.c b/archival/libunarchive/get_header_ar.c
index 86e0bc08f..ebb6f8cbe 100644
--- a/archival/libunarchive/get_header_ar.c
+++ b/archival/libunarchive/get_header_ar.c
@@ -47,7 +47,9 @@ extern char get_header_ar(archive_handle_t *archive_handle)
 		return(EXIT_FAILURE);
 	}
 
-	/* Some ar entries have a trailing '\n' after the previous data entry */
+	/* ar header starts on an even byte (2 byte aligned)
+	 * '\n' is used for padding
+	 */
 	if (ar.raw[0] == '\n') {
 		/* fix up the header, we started reading 1 byte too early */
 		memmove(ar.raw, &ar.raw[1], 59);
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