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package/python/Lib/tarfile.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+#-------------------------------------------------------------------
+# tarfile.py
+#-------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Copyright (C) 2002 Lars Gustaebel <lars@gustaebel.de>
+# All rights reserved.
+#
+# Permission  is  hereby granted,  free  of charge,  to  any person
+# obtaining a  copy of  this software  and associated documentation
+# files  (the  "Software"),  to   deal  in  the  Software   without
+# restriction,  including  without limitation  the  rights to  use,
+# copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
+# copies  of  the  Software,  and to  permit  persons  to  whom the
+# Software  is  furnished  to  do  so,  subject  to  the  following
+# conditions:
+#
+# The above copyright  notice and this  permission notice shall  be
+# included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+#
+# THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS  IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY  KIND,
+# EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING  BUT NOT LIMITED TO  THE WARRANTIES
+# OF  MERCHANTABILITY,  FITNESS   FOR  A  PARTICULAR   PURPOSE  AND
+# NONINFRINGEMENT.  IN  NO  EVENT SHALL  THE  AUTHORS  OR COPYRIGHT
+# HOLDERS  BE LIABLE  FOR ANY  CLAIM, DAMAGES  OR OTHER  LIABILITY,
+# WHETHER  IN AN  ACTION OF  CONTRACT, TORT  OR OTHERWISE,  ARISING
+# FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR
+# OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
+#
+"""Read from and write to tar format archives.
+"""
+
+version     = "0.9.0"
+__author__  = "Lars Gust\u00e4bel (lars@gustaebel.de)"
+__credits__ = "Gustavo Niemeyer, Niels Gust\u00e4bel, Richard Townsend."
+
+#---------
+# Imports
+#---------
+from builtins import open as bltn_open
+import sys
+import os
+import io
+import shutil
+import stat
+import time
+import struct
+import copy
+import re
+
+try:
+    import pwd
+except ImportError:
+    pwd = None
+try:
+    import grp
+except ImportError:
+    grp = None
+
+# os.symlink on Windows prior to 6.0 raises NotImplementedError
+# OSError (winerror=1314) will be raised if the caller does not hold the
+# SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege privilege
+symlink_exception = (AttributeError, NotImplementedError, OSError)
+
+# from tarfile import *
+__all__ = ["TarFile", "TarInfo", "is_tarfile", "TarError", "ReadError",
+           "CompressionError", "StreamError", "ExtractError", "HeaderError",
+           "ENCODING", "USTAR_FORMAT", "GNU_FORMAT", "PAX_FORMAT",
+           "DEFAULT_FORMAT", "open","fully_trusted_filter", "data_filter",
+           "tar_filter", "FilterError", "AbsoluteLinkError",
+           "OutsideDestinationError", "SpecialFileError", "AbsolutePathError",
+           "LinkOutsideDestinationError", "LinkFallbackError"]
+
+
+#---------------------------------------------------------
+# tar constants
+#---------------------------------------------------------
+NUL = b"\0"                     # the null character
+BLOCKSIZE = 512                 # length of processing blocks
+RECORDSIZE = BLOCKSIZE * 20     # length of records
+GNU_MAGIC = b"ustar  \0"        # magic gnu tar string
+POSIX_MAGIC = b"ustar\x0000"    # magic posix tar string
+
+LENGTH_NAME = 100               # maximum length of a filename
+LENGTH_LINK = 100               # maximum length of a linkname
+LENGTH_PREFIX = 155             # maximum length of the prefix field
+
+REGTYPE = b"0"                  # regular file
+AREGTYPE = b"\0"                # regular file
+LNKTYPE = b"1"                  # link (inside tarfile)
+SYMTYPE = b"2"                  # symbolic link
+CHRTYPE = b"3"                  # character special device
+BLKTYPE = b"4"                  # block special device
+DIRTYPE = b"5"                  # directory
+FIFOTYPE = b"6"                 # fifo special device
+CONTTYPE = b"7"                 # contiguous file
+
+GNUTYPE_LONGNAME = b"L"         # GNU tar longname
+GNUTYPE_LONGLINK = b"K"         # GNU tar longlink
+GNUTYPE_SPARSE = b"S"           # GNU tar sparse file
+
+XHDTYPE = b"x"                  # POSIX.1-2001 extended header
+XGLTYPE = b"g"                  # POSIX.1-2001 global header
+SOLARIS_XHDTYPE = b"X"          # Solaris extended header
+
+USTAR_FORMAT = 0                # POSIX.1-1988 (ustar) format
+GNU_FORMAT = 1                  # GNU tar format
+PAX_FORMAT = 2                  # POSIX.1-2001 (pax) format
+DEFAULT_FORMAT = PAX_FORMAT
+
+#---------------------------------------------------------
+# tarfile constants
+#---------------------------------------------------------
+# File types that tarfile supports:
+SUPPORTED_TYPES = (REGTYPE, AREGTYPE, LNKTYPE,
+                   SYMTYPE, DIRTYPE, FIFOTYPE,
+                   CONTTYPE, CHRTYPE, BLKTYPE,
+                   GNUTYPE_LONGNAME, GNUTYPE_LONGLINK,
+                   GNUTYPE_SPARSE)
+
+# File types that will be treated as a regular file.
+REGULAR_TYPES = (REGTYPE, AREGTYPE,
+                 CONTTYPE, GNUTYPE_SPARSE)
+
+# File types that are part of the GNU tar format.
+GNU_TYPES = (GNUTYPE_LONGNAME, GNUTYPE_LONGLINK,
+             GNUTYPE_SPARSE)
+
+# Fields from a pax header that override a TarInfo attribute.
+PAX_FIELDS = ("path", "linkpath", "size", "mtime",
+              "uid", "gid", "uname", "gname")
+
+# Fields from a pax header that are affected by hdrcharset.
+PAX_NAME_FIELDS = {"path", "linkpath", "uname", "gname"}
+
+# Fields in a pax header that are numbers, all other fields
+# are treated as strings.
+PAX_NUMBER_FIELDS = {
+    "atime": float,
+    "ctime": float,
+    "mtime": float,
+    "uid": int,
+    "gid": int,
+    "size": int
+}
+
+#---------------------------------------------------------
+# initialization
+#---------------------------------------------------------
+if os.name == "nt":
+    ENCODING = "utf-8"
+else:
+    ENCODING = sys.getfilesystemencoding()
+
+#---------------------------------------------------------
+# Some useful functions
+#---------------------------------------------------------
+
+def stn(s, length, encoding, errors):
+    """Convert a string to a null-terminated bytes object.
+    """
+    if s is None:
+        raise ValueError("metadata cannot contain None")
+    s = s.encode(encoding, errors)
+    return s[:length] + (length - len(s)) * NUL
+
+def nts(s, encoding, errors):
+    """Convert a null-terminated bytes object to a string.
+    """
+    p = s.find(b"\0")
+    if p != -1:
+        s = s[:p]
+    return s.decode(encoding, errors)
+
+def nti(s):
+    """Convert a number field to a python number.
+    """
+    # There are two possible encodings for a number field, see
+    # itn() below.
+    if s[0] in (0o200, 0o377):
+        n = 0
+        for i in range(len(s) - 1):
+            n <<= 8
+            n += s[i + 1]
+        if s[0] == 0o377:
+            n = -(256 ** (len(s) - 1) - n)
+    else:
+        try:
+            s = nts(s, "ascii", "strict")
+            n = int(s.strip() or "0", 8)
+        except ValueError:
+            raise InvalidHeaderError("invalid header")
+    return n
+
+def itn(n, digits=8, format=DEFAULT_FORMAT):
+    """Convert a python number to a number field.
+    """
+    # POSIX 1003.1-1988 requires numbers to be encoded as a string of
+    # octal digits followed by a null-byte, this allows values up to
+    # (8**(digits-1))-1. GNU tar allows storing numbers greater than
+    # that if necessary. A leading 0o200 or 0o377 byte indicate this
+    # particular encoding, the following digits-1 bytes are a big-endian
+    # base-256 representation. This allows values up to (256**(digits-1))-1.
+    # A 0o200 byte indicates a positive number, a 0o377 byte a negative
+    # number.
+    original_n = n
+    n = int(n)
+    if 0 <= n < 8 ** (digits - 1):
+        s = bytes("%0*o" % (digits - 1, n), "ascii") + NUL
+    elif format == GNU_FORMAT and -256 ** (digits - 1) <= n < 256 ** (digits - 1):
+        if n >= 0:
+            s = bytearray([0o200])
+        else:
+            s = bytearray([0o377])
+            n = 256 ** digits + n
+
+        for i in range(digits - 1):
+            s.insert(1, n & 0o377)
+            n >>= 8
+    else:
+        raise ValueError("overflow in number field")
+
+    return s
+
+def calc_chksums(buf):
+    """Calculate the checksum for a member's header by summing up all
+       characters except for the chksum field which is treated as if
+       it was filled with spaces. According to the GNU tar sources,
+       some tars (Sun and NeXT) calculate chksum with signed char,
+       which will be different if there are chars in the buffer with
+       the high bit set. So we calculate two checksums, unsigned and
+       signed.
+    """
+    unsigned_chksum = 256 + sum(struct.unpack_from("148B8x356B", buf))
+    signed_chksum = 256 + sum(struct.unpack_from("148b8x356b", buf))
+    return unsigned_chksum, signed_chksum
+
+def copyfileobj(src, dst, length=None, exception=OSError, bufsize=None):
+    """Copy length bytes from fileobj src to fileobj dst.
+       If length is None, copy the entire content.
+    """
+    bufsize = bufsize or 16 * 1024
+    if length == 0:
+        return
+    if length is None:
+        shutil.copyfileobj(src, dst, bufsize)
+        return
+
+    blocks, remainder = divmod(length, bufsize)
+    for b in range(blocks):
+        buf = src.read(bufsize)
+        if len(buf) < bufsize:
+            raise exception("unexpected end of data")
+        dst.write(buf)
+
+    if remainder != 0:
+        buf = src.read(remainder)
+        if len(buf) < remainder:
+            raise exception("unexpected end of data")
+        dst.write(buf)
+    return
+
+def _safe_print(s):
+    encoding = getattr(sys.stdout, 'encoding', None)
+    if encoding is not None:
+        s = s.encode(encoding, 'backslashreplace').decode(encoding)
+    print(s, end=' ')
+
+
+class TarError(Exception):
+    """Base exception."""
+    pass
+class ExtractError(TarError):
+    """General exception for extract errors."""
+    pass
+class ReadError(TarError):
+    """Exception for unreadable tar archives."""
+    pass
+class CompressionError(TarError):
+    """Exception for unavailable compression methods."""
+    pass
+class StreamError(TarError):
+    """Exception for unsupported operations on stream-like TarFiles."""
+    pass
+class HeaderError(TarError):
+    """Base exception for header errors."""
+    pass
+class EmptyHeaderError(HeaderError):
+    """Exception for empty headers."""
+    pass
+class TruncatedHeaderError(HeaderError):
+    """Exception for truncated headers."""
+    pass
+class EOFHeaderError(HeaderError):
+    """Exception for end of file headers."""
+    pass
+class InvalidHeaderError(HeaderError):
+    """Exception for invalid headers."""
+    pass
+class SubsequentHeaderError(HeaderError):
+    """Exception for missing and invalid extended headers."""
+    pass
+
+#---------------------------
+# internal stream interface
+#---------------------------
+class _LowLevelFile:
+    """Low-level file object. Supports reading and writing.
+       It is used instead of a regular file object for streaming
+       access.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, name, mode):
+        mode = {
+            "r": os.O_RDONLY,
+            "w": os.O_WRONLY | os.O_CREAT | os.O_TRUNC,
+        }[mode]
+        if hasattr(os, "O_BINARY"):
+            mode |= os.O_BINARY
+        self.fd = os.open(name, mode, 0o666)
+
+    def close(self):
+        os.close(self.fd)
+
+    def read(self, size):
+        return os.read(self.fd, size)
+
+    def write(self, s):
+        os.write(self.fd, s)
+
+class _Stream:
+    """Class that serves as an adapter between TarFile and
+       a stream-like object.  The stream-like object only
+       needs to have a read() or write() method that works with bytes,
+       and the method is accessed blockwise.
+       Use of gzip or bzip2 compression is possible.
+       A stream-like object could be for example: sys.stdin.buffer,
+       sys.stdout.buffer, a socket, a tape device etc.
+
+       _Stream is intended to be used only internally.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, name, mode, comptype, fileobj, bufsize,
+                 compresslevel):
+        """Construct a _Stream object.
+        """
+        self._extfileobj = True
+        if fileobj is None:
+            fileobj = _LowLevelFile(name, mode)
+            self._extfileobj = False
+
+        if comptype == '*':
+            # Enable transparent compression detection for the
+            # stream interface
+            fileobj = _StreamProxy(fileobj)
+            comptype = fileobj.getcomptype()
+
+        self.name     = os.fspath(name) if name is not None else ""
+        self.mode     = mode
+        self.comptype = comptype
+        self.fileobj  = fileobj
+        self.bufsize  = bufsize
+        self.buf      = b""
+        self.pos      = 0
+        self.closed   = False
+
+        try:
+            if comptype == "gz":
+                try:
+                    import zlib
+                except ImportError:
+                    raise CompressionError("zlib module is not available") from None
+                self.zlib = zlib
+                self.crc = zlib.crc32(b"")
+                if mode == "r":
+                    self.exception = zlib.error
+                    self._init_read_gz()
+                else:
+                    self._init_write_gz(compresslevel)
+
+            elif comptype == "bz2":
+                try:
+                    import bz2
+                except ImportError:
+                    raise CompressionError("bz2 module is not available") from None
+                if mode == "r":
+                    self.dbuf = b""
+                    self.cmp = bz2.BZ2Decompressor()
+                    self.exception = OSError
+                else:
+                    self.cmp = bz2.BZ2Compressor(compresslevel)
+
+            elif comptype == "xz":
+                try:
+                    import lzma
+                except ImportError:
+                    raise CompressionError("lzma module is not available") from None
+                if mode == "r":
+                    self.dbuf = b""
+                    self.cmp = lzma.LZMADecompressor()
+                    self.exception = lzma.LZMAError
+                else:
+                    self.cmp = lzma.LZMACompressor()
+
+            elif comptype != "tar":
+                raise CompressionError("unknown compression type %r" % comptype)
+
+        except:
+            if not self._extfileobj:
+                self.fileobj.close()
+            self.closed = True
+            raise
+
+    def __del__(self):
+        if hasattr(self, "closed") and not self.closed:
+            self.close()
+
+    def _init_write_gz(self, compresslevel):
+        """Initialize for writing with gzip compression.
+        """
+        self.cmp = self.zlib.compressobj(compresslevel,
+                                         self.zlib.DEFLATED,
+                                         -self.zlib.MAX_WBITS,
+                                         self.zlib.DEF_MEM_LEVEL,
+                                         0)
+        timestamp = struct.pack("<L", int(time.time()))
+        self.__write(b"\037\213\010\010" + timestamp + b"\002\377")
+        if self.name.endswith(".gz"):
+            self.name = self.name[:-3]
+        # Honor "directory components removed" from RFC1952
+        self.name = os.path.basename(self.name)
+        # RFC1952 says we must use ISO-8859-1 for the FNAME field.
+        self.__write(self.name.encode("iso-8859-1", "replace") + NUL)
+
+    def write(self, s):
+        """Write string s to the stream.
+        """
+        if self.comptype == "gz":
+            self.crc = self.zlib.crc32(s, self.crc)
+        self.pos += len(s)
+        if self.comptype != "tar":
+            s = self.cmp.compress(s)
+        self.__write(s)
+
+    def __write(self, s):
+        """Write string s to the stream if a whole new block
+           is ready to be written.
+        """
+        self.buf += s
+        while len(self.buf) > self.bufsize:
+            self.fileobj.write(self.buf[:self.bufsize])
+            self.buf = self.buf[self.bufsize:]
+
+    def close(self):
+        """Close the _Stream object. No operation should be
+           done on it afterwards.
+        """
+        if self.closed:
+            return
+
+        self.closed = True
+        try:
+            if self.mode == "w" and self.comptype != "tar":
+                self.buf += self.cmp.flush()
+
+            if self.mode == "w" and self.buf:
+                self.fileobj.write(self.buf)
+                self.buf = b""
+                if self.comptype == "gz":
+                    self.fileobj.write(struct.pack("<L", self.crc))
+                    self.fileobj.write(struct.pack("<L", self.pos & 0xffffFFFF))
+        finally:
+            if not self._extfileobj:
+                self.fileobj.close()
+
+    def _init_read_gz(self):
+        """Initialize for reading a gzip compressed fileobj.
+        """
+        self.cmp = self.zlib.decompressobj(-self.zlib.MAX_WBITS)
+        self.dbuf = b""
+
+        # taken from gzip.GzipFile with some alterations
+        if self.__read(2) != b"\037\213":
+            raise ReadError("not a gzip file")
+        if self.__read(1) != b"\010":
+            raise CompressionError("unsupported compression method")
+
+        flag = ord(self.__read(1))
+        self.__read(6)
+
+        if flag & 4:
+            xlen = ord(self.__read(1)) + 256 * ord(self.__read(1))
+            self.read(xlen)
+        if flag & 8:
+            while True:
+                s = self.__read(1)
+                if not s or s == NUL:
+                    break
+        if flag & 16:
+            while True:
+                s = self.__read(1)
+                if not s or s == NUL:
+                    break
+        if flag & 2:
+            self.__read(2)
+
+    def tell(self):
+        """Return the stream's file pointer position.
+        """
+        return self.pos
+
+    def seek(self, pos=0):
+        """Set the stream's file pointer to pos. Negative seeking
+           is forbidden.
+        """
+        if pos - self.pos >= 0:
+            blocks, remainder = divmod(pos - self.pos, self.bufsize)
+            for i in range(blocks):
+                self.read(self.bufsize)
+            self.read(remainder)
+        else:
+            raise StreamError("seeking backwards is not allowed")
+        return self.pos
+
+    def read(self, size):
+        """Return the next size number of bytes from the stream."""
+        assert size is not None
+        buf = self._read(size)
+        self.pos += len(buf)
+        return buf
+
+    def _read(self, size):
+        """Return size bytes from the stream.
+        """
+        if self.comptype == "tar":
+            return self.__read(size)
+
+        c = len(self.dbuf)
+        t = [self.dbuf]
+        while c < size:
+            # Skip underlying buffer to avoid unaligned double buffering.
+            if self.buf:
+                buf = self.buf
+                self.buf = b""
+            else:
+                buf = self.fileobj.read(self.bufsize)
+                if not buf:
+                    break
+            try:
+                buf = self.cmp.decompress(buf)
+            except self.exception as e:
+                raise ReadError("invalid compressed data") from e
+            t.append(buf)
+            c += len(buf)
+        t = b"".join(t)
+        self.dbuf = t[size:]
+        return t[:size]
+
+    def __read(self, size):
+        """Return size bytes from stream. If internal buffer is empty,
+           read another block from the stream.
+        """
+        c = len(self.buf)
+        t = [self.buf]
+        while c < size:
+            buf = self.fileobj.read(self.bufsize)
+            if not buf:
+                break
+            t.append(buf)
+            c += len(buf)
+        t = b"".join(t)
+        self.buf = t[size:]
+        return t[:size]
+# class _Stream
+
+class _StreamProxy(object):
+    """Small proxy class that enables transparent compression
+       detection for the Stream interface (mode 'r|*').
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, fileobj):
+        self.fileobj = fileobj
+        self.buf = self.fileobj.read(BLOCKSIZE)
+
+    def read(self, size):
+        self.read = self.fileobj.read
+        return self.buf
+
+    def getcomptype(self):
+        if self.buf.startswith(b"\x1f\x8b\x08"):
+            return "gz"
+        elif self.buf[0:3] == b"BZh" and self.buf[4:10] == b"1AY&SY":
+            return "bz2"
+        elif self.buf.startswith((b"\x5d\x00\x00\x80", b"\xfd7zXZ")):
+            return "xz"
+        else:
+            return "tar"
+
+    def close(self):
+        self.fileobj.close()
+# class StreamProxy
+
+#------------------------
+# Extraction file object
+#------------------------
+class _FileInFile(object):
+    """A thin wrapper around an existing file object that
+       provides a part of its data as an individual file
+       object.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, fileobj, offset, size, name, blockinfo=None):
+        self.fileobj = fileobj
+        self.offset = offset
+        self.size = size
+        self.position = 0
+        self.name = name
+        self.closed = False
+
+        if blockinfo is None:
+            blockinfo = [(0, size)]
+
+        # Construct a map with data and zero blocks.
+        self.map_index = 0
+        self.map = []
+        lastpos = 0
+        realpos = self.offset
+        for offset, size in blockinfo:
+            if offset > lastpos:
+                self.map.append((False, lastpos, offset, None))
+            self.map.append((True, offset, offset + size, realpos))
+            realpos += size
+            lastpos = offset + size
+        if lastpos < self.size:
+            self.map.append((False, lastpos, self.size, None))
+
+    def flush(self):
+        pass
+
+    @property
+    def mode(self):
+        return 'rb'
+
+    def readable(self):
+        return True
+
+    def writable(self):
+        return False
+
+    def seekable(self):
+        return self.fileobj.seekable()
+
+    def tell(self):
+        """Return the current file position.
+        """
+        return self.position
+
+    def seek(self, position, whence=io.SEEK_SET):
+        """Seek to a position in the file.
+        """
+        if whence == io.SEEK_SET:
+            self.position = min(max(position, 0), self.size)
+        elif whence == io.SEEK_CUR:
+            if position < 0:
+                self.position = max(self.position + position, 0)
+            else:
+                self.position = min(self.position + position, self.size)
+        elif whence == io.SEEK_END:
+            self.position = max(min(self.size + position, self.size), 0)
+        else:
+            raise ValueError("Invalid argument")
+        return self.position
+
+    def read(self, size=None):
+        """Read data from the file.
+        """
+        if size is None:
+            size = self.size - self.position
+        else:
+            size = min(size, self.size - self.position)
+
+        buf = b""
+        while size > 0:
+            while True:
+                data, start, stop, offset = self.map[self.map_index]
+                if start <= self.position < stop:
+                    break
+                else:
+                    self.map_index += 1
+                    if self.map_index == len(self.map):
+                        self.map_index = 0
+            length = min(size, stop - self.position)
+            if data:
+                self.fileobj.seek(offset + (self.position - start))
+                b = self.fileobj.read(length)
+                if len(b) != length:
+                    raise ReadError("unexpected end of data")
+                buf += b
+            else:
+                buf += NUL * length
+            size -= length
+            self.position += length
+        return buf
+
+    def readinto(self, b):
+        buf = self.read(len(b))
+        b[:len(buf)] = buf
+        return len(buf)
+
+    def close(self):
+        self.closed = True
+#class _FileInFile
+
+class ExFileObject(io.BufferedReader):
+
+    def __init__(self, tarfile, tarinfo):
+        fileobj = _FileInFile(tarfile.fileobj, tarinfo.offset_data,
+                tarinfo.size, tarinfo.name, tarinfo.sparse)
+        super().__init__(fileobj)
+#class ExFileObject
+
+
+#-----------------------------
+# extraction filters (PEP 706)
+#-----------------------------
+
+class FilterError(TarError):
+    pass
+
+class AbsolutePathError(FilterError):
+    def __init__(self, tarinfo):
+        self.tarinfo = tarinfo
+        super().__init__(f'member {tarinfo.name!r} has an absolute path')
+
+class OutsideDestinationError(FilterError):
+    def __init__(self, tarinfo, path):
+        self.tarinfo = tarinfo
+        self._path = path
+        super().__init__(f'{tarinfo.name!r} would be extracted to {path!r}, '
+                         + 'which is outside the destination')
+
+class SpecialFileError(FilterError):
+    def __init__(self, tarinfo):
+        self.tarinfo = tarinfo
+        super().__init__(f'{tarinfo.name!r} is a special file')
+
+class AbsoluteLinkError(FilterError):
+    def __init__(self, tarinfo):
+        self.tarinfo = tarinfo
+        super().__init__(f'{tarinfo.name!r} is a link to an absolute path')
+
+class LinkOutsideDestinationError(FilterError):
+    def __init__(self, tarinfo, path):
+        self.tarinfo = tarinfo
+        self._path = path
+        super().__init__(f'{tarinfo.name!r} would link to {path!r}, '
+                         + 'which is outside the destination')
+
+class LinkFallbackError(FilterError):
+    def __init__(self, tarinfo, path):
+        self.tarinfo = tarinfo
+        self._path = path
+        super().__init__(f'link {tarinfo.name!r} would be extracted as a '
+                         + f'copy of {path!r}, which was rejected')
+
+# Errors caused by filters -- both "fatal" and "non-fatal" -- that
+# we consider to be issues with the argument, rather than a bug in the
+# filter function
+_FILTER_ERRORS = (FilterError, OSError, ExtractError)
+
+def _get_filtered_attrs(member, dest_path, for_data=True):
+    new_attrs = {}
+    name = member.name
+    dest_path = os.path.realpath(dest_path, strict=os.path.ALLOW_MISSING)
+    # Strip leading / (tar's directory separator) from filenames.
+    # Include os.sep (target OS directory separator) as well.
+    if name.startswith(('/', os.sep)):
+        name = new_attrs['name'] = member.path.lstrip('/' + os.sep)
+    if os.path.isabs(name):
+        # Path is absolute even after stripping.
+        # For example, 'C:/foo' on Windows.
+        raise AbsolutePathError(member)
+    # Ensure we stay in the destination
+    target_path = os.path.realpath(os.path.join(dest_path, name),
+                                   strict=os.path.ALLOW_MISSING)
+    if os.path.commonpath([target_path, dest_path]) != dest_path:
+        raise OutsideDestinationError(member, target_path)
+    # Limit permissions (no high bits, and go-w)
+    mode = member.mode
+    if mode is not None:
+        # Strip high bits & group/other write bits
+        mode = mode & 0o755
+        if for_data:
+            # For data, handle permissions & file types
+            if member.isreg() or member.islnk():
+                if not mode & 0o100:
+                    # Clear executable bits if not executable by user
+                    mode &= ~0o111
+                # Ensure owner can read & write
+                mode |= 0o600
+            elif member.isdir() or member.issym():
+                # Ignore mode for directories & symlinks
+                mode = None
+            else:
+                # Reject special files
+                raise SpecialFileError(member)
+        if mode != member.mode:
+            new_attrs['mode'] = mode
+    if for_data:
+        # Ignore ownership for 'data'
+        if member.uid is not None:
+            new_attrs['uid'] = None
+        if member.gid is not None:
+            new_attrs['gid'] = None
+        if member.uname is not None:
+            new_attrs['uname'] = None
+        if member.gname is not None:
+            new_attrs['gname'] = None
+        # Check link destination for 'data'
+        if member.islnk() or member.issym():
+            if os.path.isabs(member.linkname):
+                raise AbsoluteLinkError(member)
+            normalized = os.path.normpath(member.linkname)
+            if normalized != member.linkname:
+                new_attrs['linkname'] = normalized
+            if member.issym():
+                target_path = os.path.join(dest_path,
+                                           os.path.dirname(name),
+                                           member.linkname)
+            else:
+                target_path = os.path.join(dest_path,
+                                           member.linkname)
+            target_path = os.path.realpath(target_path,
+                                           strict=os.path.ALLOW_MISSING)
+            if os.path.commonpath([target_path, dest_path]) != dest_path:
+                raise LinkOutsideDestinationError(member, target_path)
+    return new_attrs
+
+def fully_trusted_filter(member, dest_path):
+    return member
+
+def tar_filter(member, dest_path):
+    new_attrs = _get_filtered_attrs(member, dest_path, False)
+    if new_attrs:
+        return member.replace(**new_attrs, deep=False)
+    return member
+
+def data_filter(member, dest_path):
+    new_attrs = _get_filtered_attrs(member, dest_path, True)
+    if new_attrs:
+        return member.replace(**new_attrs, deep=False)
+    return member
+
+_NAMED_FILTERS = {
+    "fully_trusted": fully_trusted_filter,
+    "tar": tar_filter,
+    "data": data_filter,
+}
+
+#------------------
+# Exported Classes
+#------------------
+
+# Sentinel for replace() defaults, meaning "don't change the attribute"
+_KEEP = object()
+
+# Header length is digits followed by a space.
+_header_length_prefix_re = re.compile(br"([0-9]{1,20}) ")
+
+class TarInfo(object):
+    """Informational class which holds the details about an
+       archive member given by a tar header block.
+       TarInfo objects are returned by TarFile.getmember(),
+       TarFile.getmembers() and TarFile.gettarinfo() and are
+       usually created internally.
+    """
+
+    __slots__ = dict(
+        name = 'Name of the archive member.',
+        mode = 'Permission bits.',
+        uid = 'User ID of the user who originally stored this member.',
+        gid = 'Group ID of the user who originally stored this member.',
+        size = 'Size in bytes.',
+        mtime = 'Time of last modification.',
+        chksum = 'Header checksum.',
+        type = ('File type. type is usually one of these constants: '
+                'REGTYPE, AREGTYPE, LNKTYPE, SYMTYPE, DIRTYPE, FIFOTYPE, '
+                'CONTTYPE, CHRTYPE, BLKTYPE, GNUTYPE_SPARSE.'),
+        linkname = ('Name of the target file name, which is only present '
+                    'in TarInfo objects of type LNKTYPE and SYMTYPE.'),
+        uname = 'User name.',
+        gname = 'Group name.',
+        devmajor = 'Device major number.',
+        devminor = 'Device minor number.',
+        offset = 'The tar header starts here.',
+        offset_data = "The file's data starts here.",
+        pax_headers = ('A dictionary containing key-value pairs of an '
+                       'associated pax extended header.'),
+        sparse = 'Sparse member information.',
+        _tarfile = None,
+        _sparse_structs = None,
+        _link_target = None,
+        )
+
+    def __init__(self, name=""):
+        """Construct a TarInfo object. name is the optional name
+           of the member.
+        """
+        self.name = name        # member name
+        self.mode = 0o644       # file permissions
+        self.uid = 0            # user id
+        self.gid = 0            # group id
+        self.size = 0           # file size
+        self.mtime = 0          # modification time
+        self.chksum = 0         # header checksum
+        self.type = REGTYPE     # member type
+        self.linkname = ""      # link name
+        self.uname = ""         # user name
+        self.gname = ""         # group name
+        self.devmajor = 0       # device major number
+        self.devminor = 0       # device minor number
+
+        self.offset = 0         # the tar header starts here
+        self.offset_data = 0    # the file's data starts here
+
+        self.sparse = None      # sparse member information
+        self.pax_headers = {}   # pax header information
+
+    @property
+    def tarfile(self):
+        import warnings
+        warnings.warn(
+            'The undocumented "tarfile" attribute of TarInfo objects '
+            + 'is deprecated and will be removed in Python 3.16',
+            DeprecationWarning, stacklevel=2)
+        return self._tarfile
+
+    @tarfile.setter
+    def tarfile(self, tarfile):
+        import warnings
+        warnings.warn(
+            'The undocumented "tarfile" attribute of TarInfo objects '
+            + 'is deprecated and will be removed in Python 3.16',
+            DeprecationWarning, stacklevel=2)
+        self._tarfile = tarfile
+
+    @property
+    def path(self):
+        'In pax headers, "name" is called "path".'
+        return self.name
+
+    @path.setter
+    def path(self, name):
+        self.name = name
+
+    @property
+    def linkpath(self):
+        'In pax headers, "linkname" is called "linkpath".'
+        return self.linkname
+
+    @linkpath.setter
+    def linkpath(self, linkname):
+        self.linkname = linkname
+
+    def __repr__(self):
+        return "<%s %r at %#x>" % (self.__class__.__name__,self.name,id(self))
+
+    def replace(self, *,
+                name=_KEEP, mtime=_KEEP, mode=_KEEP, linkname=_KEEP,
+                uid=_KEEP, gid=_KEEP, uname=_KEEP, gname=_KEEP,
+                deep=True, _KEEP=_KEEP):
+        """Return a deep copy of self with the given attributes replaced.
+        """
+        if deep:
+            result = copy.deepcopy(self)
+        else:
+            result = copy.copy(self)
+        if name is not _KEEP:
+            result.name = name
+        if mtime is not _KEEP:
+            result.mtime = mtime
+        if mode is not _KEEP:
+            result.mode = mode
+        if linkname is not _KEEP:
+            result.linkname = linkname
+        if uid is not _KEEP:
+            result.uid = uid
+        if gid is not _KEEP:
+            result.gid = gid
+        if uname is not _KEEP:
+            result.uname = uname
+        if gname is not _KEEP:
+            result.gname = gname
+        return result
+
+    def get_info(self):
+        """Return the TarInfo's attributes as a dictionary.
+        """
+        if self.mode is None:
+            mode = None
+        else:
+            mode = self.mode & 0o7777
+        info = {
+            "name":     self.name,
+            "mode":     mode,
+            "uid":      self.uid,
+            "gid":      self.gid,
+            "size":     self.size,
+            "mtime":    self.mtime,
+            "chksum":   self.chksum,
+            "type":     self.type,
+            "linkname": self.linkname,
+            "uname":    self.uname,
+            "gname":    self.gname,
+            "devmajor": self.devmajor,
+            "devminor": self.devminor
+        }
+
+        if info["type"] == DIRTYPE and not info["name"].endswith("/"):
+            info["name"] += "/"
+
+        return info
+
+    def tobuf(self, format=DEFAULT_FORMAT, encoding=ENCODING, errors="surrogateescape"):
+        """Return a tar header as a string of 512 byte blocks.
+        """
+        info = self.get_info()
+        for name, value in info.items():
+            if value is None:
+                raise ValueError("%s may not be None" % name)
+
+        if format == USTAR_FORMAT:
+            return self.create_ustar_header(info, encoding, errors)
+        elif format == GNU_FORMAT:
+            return self.create_gnu_header(info, encoding, errors)
+        elif format == PAX_FORMAT:
+            return self.create_pax_header(info, encoding)
+        else:
+            raise ValueError("invalid format")
+
+    def create_ustar_header(self, info, encoding, errors):
+        """Return the object as a ustar header block.
+        """
+        info["magic"] = POSIX_MAGIC
+
+        if len(info["linkname"].encode(encoding, errors)) > LENGTH_LINK:
+            raise ValueError("linkname is too long")
+
+        if len(info["name"].encode(encoding, errors)) > LENGTH_NAME:
+            info["prefix"], info["name"] = self._posix_split_name(info["name"], encoding, errors)
+
+        return self._create_header(info, USTAR_FORMAT, encoding, errors)
+
+    def create_gnu_header(self, info, encoding, errors):
+        """Return the object as a GNU header block sequence.
+        """
+        info["magic"] = GNU_MAGIC
+
+        buf = b""
+        if len(info["linkname"].encode(encoding, errors)) > LENGTH_LINK:
+            buf += self._create_gnu_long_header(info["linkname"], GNUTYPE_LONGLINK, encoding, errors)
+
+        if len(info["name"].encode(encoding, errors)) > LENGTH_NAME:
+            buf += self._create_gnu_long_header(info["name"], GNUTYPE_LONGNAME, encoding, errors)
+
+        return buf + self._create_header(info, GNU_FORMAT, encoding, errors)
+
+    def create_pax_header(self, info, encoding):
+        """Return the object as a ustar header block. If it cannot be
+           represented this way, prepend a pax extended header sequence
+           with supplement information.
+        """
+        info["magic"] = POSIX_MAGIC
+        pax_headers = self.pax_headers.copy()
+
+        # Test string fields for values that exceed the field length or cannot
+        # be represented in ASCII encoding.
+        for name, hname, length in (
+                ("name", "path", LENGTH_NAME), ("linkname", "linkpath", LENGTH_LINK),
+                ("uname", "uname", 32), ("gname", "gname", 32)):
+
+            if hname in pax_headers:
+                # The pax header has priority.
+                continue
+
+            # Try to encode the string as ASCII.
+            try:
+                info[name].encode("ascii", "strict")
+            except UnicodeEncodeError:
+                pax_headers[hname] = info[name]
+                continue
+
+            if len(info[name]) > length:
+                pax_headers[hname] = info[name]
+
+        # Test number fields for values that exceed the field limit or values
+        # that like to be stored as float.
+        for name, digits in (("uid", 8), ("gid", 8), ("size", 12), ("mtime", 12)):
+            needs_pax = False
+
+            val = info[name]
+            val_is_float = isinstance(val, float)
+            val_int = round(val) if val_is_float else val
+            if not 0 <= val_int < 8 ** (digits - 1):
+                # Avoid overflow.
+                info[name] = 0
+                needs_pax = True
+            elif val_is_float:
+                # Put rounded value in ustar header, and full
+                # precision value in pax header.
+                info[name] = val_int
+                needs_pax = True
+
+            # The existing pax header has priority.
+            if needs_pax and name not in pax_headers:
+                pax_headers[name] = str(val)
+
+        # Create a pax extended header if necessary.
+        if pax_headers:
+            buf = self._create_pax_generic_header(pax_headers, XHDTYPE, encoding)
+        else:
+            buf = b""
+
+        return buf + self._create_header(info, USTAR_FORMAT, "ascii", "replace")
+
+    @classmethod
+    def create_pax_global_header(cls, pax_headers):
+        """Return the object as a pax global header block sequence.
+        """
+        return cls._create_pax_generic_header(pax_headers, XGLTYPE, "utf-8")
+
+    def _posix_split_name(self, name, encoding, errors):
+        """Split a name longer than 100 chars into a prefix
+           and a name part.
+        """
+        components = name.split("/")
+        for i in range(1, len(components)):
+            prefix = "/".join(components[:i])
+            name = "/".join(components[i:])
+            if len(prefix.encode(encoding, errors)) <= LENGTH_PREFIX and \
+                    len(name.encode(encoding, errors)) <= LENGTH_NAME:
+                break
+        else:
+            raise ValueError("name is too long")
+
+        return prefix, name
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _create_header(info, format, encoding, errors):
+        """Return a header block. info is a dictionary with file
+           information, format must be one of the *_FORMAT constants.
+        """
+        has_device_fields = info.get("type") in (CHRTYPE, BLKTYPE)
+        if has_device_fields:
+            devmajor = itn(info.get("devmajor", 0), 8, format)
+            devminor = itn(info.get("devminor", 0), 8, format)
+        else:
+            devmajor = stn("", 8, encoding, errors)
+            devminor = stn("", 8, encoding, errors)
+
+        # None values in metadata should cause ValueError.
+        # itn()/stn() do this for all fields except type.
+        filetype = info.get("type", REGTYPE)
+        if filetype is None:
+            raise ValueError("TarInfo.type must not be None")
+
+        parts = [
+            stn(info.get("name", ""), 100, encoding, errors),
+            itn(info.get("mode", 0) & 0o7777, 8, format),
+            itn(info.get("uid", 0), 8, format),
+            itn(info.get("gid", 0), 8, format),
+            itn(info.get("size", 0), 12, format),
+            itn(info.get("mtime", 0), 12, format),
+            b"        ", # checksum field
+            filetype,
+            stn(info.get("linkname", ""), 100, encoding, errors),
+            info.get("magic", POSIX_MAGIC),
+            stn(info.get("uname", ""), 32, encoding, errors),
+            stn(info.get("gname", ""), 32, encoding, errors),
+            devmajor,
+            devminor,
+            stn(info.get("prefix", ""), 155, encoding, errors)
+        ]
+
+        buf = struct.pack("%ds" % BLOCKSIZE, b"".join(parts))
+        chksum = calc_chksums(buf[-BLOCKSIZE:])[0]
+        buf = buf[:-364] + bytes("%06o\0" % chksum, "ascii") + buf[-357:]
+        return buf
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _create_payload(payload):
+        """Return the string payload filled with zero bytes
+           up to the next 512 byte border.
+        """
+        blocks, remainder = divmod(len(payload), BLOCKSIZE)
+        if remainder > 0:
+            payload += (BLOCKSIZE - remainder) * NUL
+        return payload
+
+    @classmethod
+    def _create_gnu_long_header(cls, name, type, encoding, errors):
+        """Return a GNUTYPE_LONGNAME or GNUTYPE_LONGLINK sequence
+           for name.
+        """
+        name = name.encode(encoding, errors) + NUL
+
+        info = {}
+        info["name"] = "././@LongLink"
+        info["type"] = type
+        info["size"] = len(name)
+        info["magic"] = GNU_MAGIC
+
+        # create extended header + name blocks.
+        return cls._create_header(info, USTAR_FORMAT, encoding, errors) + \
+                cls._create_payload(name)
+
+    @classmethod
+    def _create_pax_generic_header(cls, pax_headers, type, encoding):
+        """Return a POSIX.1-2008 extended or global header sequence
+           that contains a list of keyword, value pairs. The values
+           must be strings.
+        """
+        # Check if one of the fields contains surrogate characters and thereby
+        # forces hdrcharset=BINARY, see _proc_pax() for more information.
+        binary = False
+        for keyword, value in pax_headers.items():
+            try:
+                value.encode("utf-8", "strict")
+            except UnicodeEncodeError:
+                binary = True
+                break
+
+        records = b""
+        if binary:
+            # Put the hdrcharset field at the beginning of the header.
+            records += b"21 hdrcharset=BINARY\n"
+
+        for keyword, value in pax_headers.items():
+            keyword = keyword.encode("utf-8")
+            if binary:
+                # Try to restore the original byte representation of `value'.
+                # Needless to say, that the encoding must match the string.
+                value = value.encode(encoding, "surrogateescape")
+            else:
+                value = value.encode("utf-8")
+
+            l = len(keyword) + len(value) + 3   # ' ' + '=' + '\n'
+            n = p = 0
+            while True:
+                n = l + len(str(p))
+                if n == p:
+                    break
+                p = n
+            records += bytes(str(p), "ascii") + b" " + keyword + b"=" + value + b"\n"
+
+        # We use a hardcoded "././@PaxHeader" name like star does
+        # instead of the one that POSIX recommends.
+        info = {}
+        info["name"] = "././@PaxHeader"
+        info["type"] = type
+        info["size"] = len(records)
+        info["magic"] = POSIX_MAGIC
+
+        # Create pax header + record blocks.
+        return cls._create_header(info, USTAR_FORMAT, "ascii", "replace") + \
+                cls._create_payload(records)
+
+    @classmethod
+    def frombuf(cls, buf, encoding, errors):
+        """Construct a TarInfo object from a 512 byte bytes object.
+        """
+        if len(buf) == 0:
+            raise EmptyHeaderError("empty header")
+        if len(buf) != BLOCKSIZE:
+            raise TruncatedHeaderError("truncated header")
+        if buf.count(NUL) == BLOCKSIZE:
+            raise EOFHeaderError("end of file header")
+
+        chksum = nti(buf[148:156])
+        if chksum not in calc_chksums(buf):
+            raise InvalidHeaderError("bad checksum")
+
+        obj = cls()
+        obj.name = nts(buf[0:100], encoding, errors)
+        obj.mode = nti(buf[100:108])
+        obj.uid = nti(buf[108:116])
+        obj.gid = nti(buf[116:124])
+        obj.size = nti(buf[124:136])
+        obj.mtime = nti(buf[136:148])
+        obj.chksum = chksum
+        obj.type = buf[156:157]
+        obj.linkname = nts(buf[157:257], encoding, errors)
+        obj.uname = nts(buf[265:297], encoding, errors)
+        obj.gname = nts(buf[297:329], encoding, errors)
+        obj.devmajor = nti(buf[329:337])
+        obj.devminor = nti(buf[337:345])
+        prefix = nts(buf[345:500], encoding, errors)
+
+        # Old V7 tar format represents a directory as a regular
+        # file with a trailing slash.
+        if obj.type == AREGTYPE and obj.name.endswith("/"):
+            obj.type = DIRTYPE
+
+        # The old GNU sparse format occupies some of the unused
+        # space in the buffer for up to 4 sparse structures.
+        # Save them for later processing in _proc_sparse().
+        if obj.type == GNUTYPE_SPARSE:
+            pos = 386
+            structs = []
+            for i in range(4):
+                try:
+                    offset = nti(buf[pos:pos + 12])
+                    numbytes = nti(buf[pos + 12:pos + 24])
+                except ValueError:
+                    break
+                structs.append((offset, numbytes))
+                pos += 24
+            isextended = bool(buf[482])
+            origsize = nti(buf[483:495])
+            obj._sparse_structs = (structs, isextended, origsize)
+
+        # Remove redundant slashes from directories.
+        if obj.isdir():
+            obj.name = obj.name.rstrip("/")
+
+        # Reconstruct a ustar longname.
+        if prefix and obj.type not in GNU_TYPES:
+            obj.name = prefix + "/" + obj.name
+        return obj
+
+    @classmethod
+    def fromtarfile(cls, tarfile):
+        """Return the next TarInfo object from TarFile object
+           tarfile.
+        """
+        buf = tarfile.fileobj.read(BLOCKSIZE)
+        obj = cls.frombuf(buf, tarfile.encoding, tarfile.errors)
+        obj.offset = tarfile.fileobj.tell() - BLOCKSIZE
+        return obj._proc_member(tarfile)
+
+    #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+    # The following are methods that are called depending on the type of a
+    # member. The entry point is _proc_member() which can be overridden in a
+    # subclass to add custom _proc_*() methods. A _proc_*() method MUST
+    # implement the following
+    # operations:
+    # 1. Set self.offset_data to the position where the data blocks begin,
+    #    if there is data that follows.
+    # 2. Set tarfile.offset to the position where the next member's header will
+    #    begin.
+    # 3. Return self or another valid TarInfo object.
+    def _proc_member(self, tarfile):
+        """Choose the right processing method depending on
+           the type and call it.
+        """
+        if self.type in (GNUTYPE_LONGNAME, GNUTYPE_LONGLINK):
+            return self._proc_gnulong(tarfile)
+        elif self.type == GNUTYPE_SPARSE:
+            return self._proc_sparse(tarfile)
+        elif self.type in (XHDTYPE, XGLTYPE, SOLARIS_XHDTYPE):
+            return self._proc_pax(tarfile)
+        else:
+            return self._proc_builtin(tarfile)
+
+    def _proc_builtin(self, tarfile):
+        """Process a builtin type or an unknown type which
+           will be treated as a regular file.
+        """
+        self.offset_data = tarfile.fileobj.tell()
+        offset = self.offset_data
+        if self.isreg() or self.type not in SUPPORTED_TYPES:
+            # Skip the following data blocks.
+            offset += self._block(self.size)
+        tarfile.offset = offset
+
+        # Patch the TarInfo object with saved global
+        # header information.
+        self._apply_pax_info(tarfile.pax_headers, tarfile.encoding, tarfile.errors)
+
+        # Remove redundant slashes from directories. This is to be consistent
+        # with frombuf().
+        if self.isdir():
+            self.name = self.name.rstrip("/")
+
+        return self
+
+    def _proc_gnulong(self, tarfile):
+        """Process the blocks that hold a GNU longname
+           or longlink member.
+        """
+        buf = tarfile.fileobj.read(self._block(self.size))
+
+        # Fetch the next header and process it.
+        try:
+            next = self.fromtarfile(tarfile)
+        except HeaderError as e:
+            raise SubsequentHeaderError(str(e)) from None
+
+        # Patch the TarInfo object from the next header with
+        # the longname information.
+        next.offset = self.offset
+        if self.type == GNUTYPE_LONGNAME:
+            next.name = nts(buf, tarfile.encoding, tarfile.errors)
+        elif self.type == GNUTYPE_LONGLINK:
+            next.linkname = nts(buf, tarfile.encoding, tarfile.errors)
+
+        # Remove redundant slashes from directories. This is to be consistent
+        # with frombuf().
+        if next.isdir():
+            next.name = next.name.removesuffix("/")
+
+        return next
+
+    def _proc_sparse(self, tarfile):
+        """Process a GNU sparse header plus extra headers.
+        """
+        # We already collected some sparse structures in frombuf().
+        structs, isextended, origsize = self._sparse_structs
+        del self._sparse_structs
+
+        # Collect sparse structures from extended header blocks.
+        while isextended:
+            buf = tarfile.fileobj.read(BLOCKSIZE)
+            pos = 0
+            for i in range(21):
+                try:
+                    offset = nti(buf[pos:pos + 12])
+                    numbytes = nti(buf[pos + 12:pos + 24])
+                except ValueError:
+                    break
+                if offset and numbytes:
+                    structs.append((offset, numbytes))
+                pos += 24
+            isextended = bool(buf[504])
+        self.sparse = structs
+
+        self.offset_data = tarfile.fileobj.tell()
+        tarfile.offset = self.offset_data + self._block(self.size)
+        self.size = origsize
+        return self
+
+    def _proc_pax(self, tarfile):
+        """Process an extended or global header as described in
+           POSIX.1-2008.
+        """
+        # Read the header information.
+        buf = tarfile.fileobj.read(self._block(self.size))
+
+        # A pax header stores supplemental information for either
+        # the following file (extended) or all following files
+        # (global).
+        if self.type == XGLTYPE:
+            pax_headers = tarfile.pax_headers
+        else:
+            pax_headers = tarfile.pax_headers.copy()
+
+        # Parse pax header information. A record looks like that:
+        # "%d %s=%s\n" % (length, keyword, value). length is the size
+        # of the complete record including the length field itself and
+        # the newline.
+        pos = 0
+        encoding = None
+        raw_headers = []
+        while len(buf) > pos and buf[pos] != 0x00:
+            if not (match := _header_length_prefix_re.match(buf, pos)):
+                raise InvalidHeaderError("invalid header")
+            try:
+                length = int(match.group(1))
+            except ValueError:
+                raise InvalidHeaderError("invalid header")
+            # Headers must be at least 5 bytes, shortest being '5 x=\n'.
+            # Value is allowed to be empty.
+            if length < 5:
+                raise InvalidHeaderError("invalid header")
+            if pos + length > len(buf):
+                raise InvalidHeaderError("invalid header")
+
+            header_value_end_offset = match.start(1) + length - 1  # Last byte of the header
+            keyword_and_value = buf[match.end(1) + 1:header_value_end_offset]
+            raw_keyword, equals, raw_value = keyword_and_value.partition(b"=")
+
+            # Check the framing of the header. The last character must be '\n' (0x0A)
+            if not raw_keyword or equals != b"=" or buf[header_value_end_offset] != 0x0A:
+                raise InvalidHeaderError("invalid header")
+            raw_headers.append((length, raw_keyword, raw_value))
+
+            # Check if the pax header contains a hdrcharset field. This tells us
+            # the encoding of the path, linkpath, uname and gname fields. Normally,
+            # these fields are UTF-8 encoded but since POSIX.1-2008 tar
+            # implementations are allowed to store them as raw binary strings if
+            # the translation to UTF-8 fails. For the time being, we don't care about
+            # anything other than "BINARY". The only other value that is currently
+            # allowed by the standard is "ISO-IR 10646 2000 UTF-8" in other words UTF-8.
+            # Note that we only follow the initial 'hdrcharset' setting to preserve
+            # the initial behavior of the 'tarfile' module.
+            if raw_keyword == b"hdrcharset" and encoding is None:
+                if raw_value == b"BINARY":
+                    encoding = tarfile.encoding
+                else:  # This branch ensures only the first 'hdrcharset' header is used.
+                    encoding = "utf-8"
+
+            pos += length
+
+        # If no explicit hdrcharset is set, we use UTF-8 as a default.
+        if encoding is None:
+            encoding = "utf-8"
+
+        # After parsing the raw headers we can decode them to text.
+        for length, raw_keyword, raw_value in raw_headers:
+            # Normally, we could just use "utf-8" as the encoding and "strict"
+            # as the error handler, but we better not take the risk. For
+            # example, GNU tar <= 1.23 is known to store filenames it cannot
+            # translate to UTF-8 as raw strings (unfortunately without a
+            # hdrcharset=BINARY header).
+            # We first try the strict standard encoding, and if that fails we
+            # fall back on the user's encoding and error handler.
+            keyword = self._decode_pax_field(raw_keyword, "utf-8", "utf-8",
+                    tarfile.errors)
+            if keyword in PAX_NAME_FIELDS:
+                value = self._decode_pax_field(raw_value, encoding, tarfile.encoding,
+                        tarfile.errors)
+            else:
+                value = self._decode_pax_field(raw_value, "utf-8", "utf-8",
+                        tarfile.errors)
+
+            pax_headers[keyword] = value
+
+        # Fetch the next header.
+        try:
+            next = self.fromtarfile(tarfile)
+        except HeaderError as e:
+            raise SubsequentHeaderError(str(e)) from None
+
+        # Process GNU sparse information.
+        if "GNU.sparse.map" in pax_headers:
+            # GNU extended sparse format version 0.1.
+            self._proc_gnusparse_01(next, pax_headers)
+
+        elif "GNU.sparse.size" in pax_headers:
+            # GNU extended sparse format version 0.0.
+            self._proc_gnusparse_00(next, raw_headers)
+
+        elif pax_headers.get("GNU.sparse.major") == "1" and pax_headers.get("GNU.sparse.minor") == "0":
+            # GNU extended sparse format version 1.0.
+            self._proc_gnusparse_10(next, pax_headers, tarfile)
+
+        if self.type in (XHDTYPE, SOLARIS_XHDTYPE):
+            # Patch the TarInfo object with the extended header info.
+            next._apply_pax_info(pax_headers, tarfile.encoding, tarfile.errors)
+            next.offset = self.offset
+
+            if "size" in pax_headers:
+                # If the extended header replaces the size field,
+                # we need to recalculate the offset where the next
+                # header starts.
+                offset = next.offset_data
+                if next.isreg() or next.type not in SUPPORTED_TYPES:
+                    offset += next._block(next.size)
+                tarfile.offset = offset
+
+        return next
+
+    def _proc_gnusparse_00(self, next, raw_headers):
+        """Process a GNU tar extended sparse header, version 0.0.
+        """
+        offsets = []
+        numbytes = []
+        for _, keyword, value in raw_headers:
+            if keyword == b"GNU.sparse.offset":
+                try:
+                    offsets.append(int(value.decode()))
+                except ValueError:
+                    raise InvalidHeaderError("invalid header")
+
+            elif keyword == b"GNU.sparse.numbytes":
+                try:
+                    numbytes.append(int(value.decode()))
+                except ValueError:
+                    raise InvalidHeaderError("invalid header")
+
+        next.sparse = list(zip(offsets, numbytes))
+
+    def _proc_gnusparse_01(self, next, pax_headers):
+        """Process a GNU tar extended sparse header, version 0.1.
+        """
+        sparse = [int(x) for x in pax_headers["GNU.sparse.map"].split(",")]
+        next.sparse = list(zip(sparse[::2], sparse[1::2]))
+
+    def _proc_gnusparse_10(self, next, pax_headers, tarfile):
+        """Process a GNU tar extended sparse header, version 1.0.
+        """
+        fields = None
+        sparse = []
+        buf = tarfile.fileobj.read(BLOCKSIZE)
+        fields, buf = buf.split(b"\n", 1)
+        fields = int(fields)
+        while len(sparse) < fields * 2:
+            if b"\n" not in buf:
+                buf += tarfile.fileobj.read(BLOCKSIZE)
+            number, buf = buf.split(b"\n", 1)
+            sparse.append(int(number))
+        next.offset_data = tarfile.fileobj.tell()
+        next.sparse = list(zip(sparse[::2], sparse[1::2]))
+
+    def _apply_pax_info(self, pax_headers, encoding, errors):
+        """Replace fields with supplemental information from a previous
+           pax extended or global header.
+        """
+        for keyword, value in pax_headers.items():
+            if keyword == "GNU.sparse.name":
+                setattr(self, "path", value)
+            elif keyword == "GNU.sparse.size":
+                setattr(self, "size", int(value))
+            elif keyword == "GNU.sparse.realsize":
+                setattr(self, "size", int(value))
+            elif keyword in PAX_FIELDS:
+                if keyword in PAX_NUMBER_FIELDS:
+                    try:
+                        value = PAX_NUMBER_FIELDS[keyword](value)
+                    except ValueError:
+                        value = 0
+                if keyword == "path":
+                    value = value.rstrip("/")
+                setattr(self, keyword, value)
+
+        self.pax_headers = pax_headers.copy()
+
+    def _decode_pax_field(self, value, encoding, fallback_encoding, fallback_errors):
+        """Decode a single field from a pax record.
+        """
+        try:
+            return value.decode(encoding, "strict")
+        except UnicodeDecodeError:
+            return value.decode(fallback_encoding, fallback_errors)
+
+    def _block(self, count):
+        """Round up a byte count by BLOCKSIZE and return it,
+           e.g. _block(834) => 1024.
+        """
+        # Only non-negative offsets are allowed
+        if count < 0:
+            raise InvalidHeaderError("invalid offset")
+        blocks, remainder = divmod(count, BLOCKSIZE)
+        if remainder:
+            blocks += 1
+        return blocks * BLOCKSIZE
+
+    def isreg(self):
+        'Return True if the Tarinfo object is a regular file.'
+        return self.type in REGULAR_TYPES
+
+    def isfile(self):
+        'Return True if the Tarinfo object is a regular file.'
+        return self.isreg()
+
+    def isdir(self):
+        'Return True if it is a directory.'
+        return self.type == DIRTYPE
+
+    def issym(self):
+        'Return True if it is a symbolic link.'
+        return self.type == SYMTYPE
+
+    def islnk(self):
+        'Return True if it is a hard link.'
+        return self.type == LNKTYPE
+
+    def ischr(self):
+        'Return True if it is a character device.'
+        return self.type == CHRTYPE
+
+    def isblk(self):
+        'Return True if it is a block device.'
+        return self.type == BLKTYPE
+
+    def isfifo(self):
+        'Return True if it is a FIFO.'
+        return self.type == FIFOTYPE
+
+    def issparse(self):
+        return self.sparse is not None
+
+    def isdev(self):
+        'Return True if it is one of character device, block device or FIFO.'
+        return self.type in (CHRTYPE, BLKTYPE, FIFOTYPE)
+# class TarInfo
+
+class TarFile(object):
+    """The TarFile Class provides an interface to tar archives.
+    """
+
+    debug = 0                   # May be set from 0 (no msgs) to 3 (all msgs)
+
+    dereference = False         # If true, add content of linked file to the
+                                # tar file, else the link.
+
+    ignore_zeros = False        # If true, skips empty or invalid blocks and
+                                # continues processing.
+
+    errorlevel = 1              # If 0, fatal errors only appear in debug
+                                # messages (if debug >= 0). If > 0, errors
+                                # are passed to the caller as exceptions.
+
+    format = DEFAULT_FORMAT     # The format to use when creating an archive.
+
+    encoding = ENCODING         # Encoding for 8-bit character strings.
+
+    errors = None               # Error handler for unicode conversion.
+
+    tarinfo = TarInfo           # The default TarInfo class to use.
+
+    fileobject = ExFileObject   # The file-object for extractfile().
+
+    extraction_filter = None    # The default filter for extraction.
+
+    def __init__(self, name=None, mode="r", fileobj=None, format=None,
+            tarinfo=None, dereference=None, ignore_zeros=None, encoding=None,
+            errors="surrogateescape", pax_headers=None, debug=None,
+            errorlevel=None, copybufsize=None, stream=False):
+        """Open an (uncompressed) tar archive `name'. `mode' is either 'r' to
+           read from an existing archive, 'a' to append data to an existing
+           file or 'w' to create a new file overwriting an existing one. `mode'
+           defaults to 'r'.
+           If `fileobj' is given, it is used for reading or writing data. If it
+           can be determined, `mode' is overridden by `fileobj's mode.
+           `fileobj' is not closed, when TarFile is closed.
+        """
+        modes = {"r": "rb", "a": "r+b", "w": "wb", "x": "xb"}
+        if mode not in modes:
+            raise ValueError("mode must be 'r', 'a', 'w' or 'x'")
+        self.mode = mode
+        self._mode = modes[mode]
+
+        if not fileobj:
+            if self.mode == "a" and not os.path.exists(name):
+                # Create nonexistent files in append mode.
+                self.mode = "w"
+                self._mode = "wb"
+            fileobj = bltn_open(name, self._mode)
+            self._extfileobj = False
+        else:
+            if (name is None and hasattr(fileobj, "name") and
+                isinstance(fileobj.name, (str, bytes))):
+                name = fileobj.name
+            if hasattr(fileobj, "mode"):
+                self._mode = fileobj.mode
+            self._extfileobj = True
+        self.name = os.path.abspath(name) if name else None
+        self.fileobj = fileobj
+
+        self.stream = stream
+
+        # Init attributes.
+        if format is not None:
+            self.format = format
+        if tarinfo is not None:
+            self.tarinfo = tarinfo
+        if dereference is not None:
+            self.dereference = dereference
+        if ignore_zeros is not None:
+            self.ignore_zeros = ignore_zeros
+        if encoding is not None:
+            self.encoding = encoding
+        self.errors = errors
+
+        if pax_headers is not None and self.format == PAX_FORMAT:
+            self.pax_headers = pax_headers
+        else:
+            self.pax_headers = {}
+
+        if debug is not None:
+            self.debug = debug
+        if errorlevel is not None:
+            self.errorlevel = errorlevel
+
+        # Init datastructures.
+        self.copybufsize = copybufsize
+        self.closed = False
+        self.members = []       # list of members as TarInfo objects
+        self._loaded = False    # flag if all members have been read
+        self.offset = self.fileobj.tell()
+                                # current position in the archive file
+        self.inodes = {}        # dictionary caching the inodes of
+                                # archive members already added
+
+        try:
+            if self.mode == "r":
+                self.firstmember = None
+                self.firstmember = self.next()
+
+            if self.mode == "a":
+                # Move to the end of the archive,
+                # before the first empty block.
+                while True:
+                    self.fileobj.seek(self.offset)
+                    try:
+                        tarinfo = self.tarinfo.fromtarfile(self)
+                        self.members.append(tarinfo)
+                    except EOFHeaderError:
+                        self.fileobj.seek(self.offset)
+                        break
+                    except HeaderError as e:
+                        raise ReadError(str(e)) from None
+
+            if self.mode in ("a", "w", "x"):
+                self._loaded = True
+
+                if self.pax_headers:
+                    buf = self.tarinfo.create_pax_global_header(self.pax_headers.copy())
+                    self.fileobj.write(buf)
+                    self.offset += len(buf)
+        except:
+            if not self._extfileobj:
+                self.fileobj.close()
+            self.closed = True
+            raise
+
+    #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+    # Below are the classmethods which act as alternate constructors to the
+    # TarFile class. The open() method is the only one that is needed for
+    # public use; it is the "super"-constructor and is able to select an
+    # adequate "sub"-constructor for a particular compression using the mapping
+    # from OPEN_METH.
+    #
+    # This concept allows one to subclass TarFile without losing the comfort of
+    # the super-constructor. A sub-constructor is registered and made available
+    # by adding it to the mapping in OPEN_METH.
+
+    @classmethod
+    def open(cls, name=None, mode="r", fileobj=None, bufsize=RECORDSIZE, **kwargs):
+        """Open a tar archive for reading, writing or appending. Return
+           an appropriate TarFile class.
+
+           mode:
+           'r' or 'r:*' open for reading with transparent compression
+           'r:'         open for reading exclusively uncompressed
+           'r:gz'       open for reading with gzip compression
+           'r:bz2'      open for reading with bzip2 compression
+           'r:xz'       open for reading with lzma compression
+           'a' or 'a:'  open for appending, creating the file if necessary
+           'w' or 'w:'  open for writing without compression
+           'w:gz'       open for writing with gzip compression
+           'w:bz2'      open for writing with bzip2 compression
+           'w:xz'       open for writing with lzma compression
+
+           'x' or 'x:'  create a tarfile exclusively without compression, raise
+                        an exception if the file is already created
+           'x:gz'       create a gzip compressed tarfile, raise an exception
+                        if the file is already created
+           'x:bz2'      create a bzip2 compressed tarfile, raise an exception
+                        if the file is already created
+           'x:xz'       create an lzma compressed tarfile, raise an exception
+                        if the file is already created
+
+           'r|*'        open a stream of tar blocks with transparent compression
+           'r|'         open an uncompressed stream of tar blocks for reading
+           'r|gz'       open a gzip compressed stream of tar blocks
+           'r|bz2'      open a bzip2 compressed stream of tar blocks
+           'r|xz'       open an lzma compressed stream of tar blocks
+           'w|'         open an uncompressed stream for writing
+           'w|gz'       open a gzip compressed stream for writing
+           'w|bz2'      open a bzip2 compressed stream for writing
+           'w|xz'       open an lzma compressed stream for writing
+        """
+
+        if not name and not fileobj:
+            raise ValueError("nothing to open")
+
+        if mode in ("r", "r:*"):
+            # Find out which *open() is appropriate for opening the file.
+            def not_compressed(comptype):
+                return cls.OPEN_METH[comptype] == 'taropen'
+            error_msgs = []
+            for comptype in sorted(cls.OPEN_METH, key=not_compressed):
+                func = getattr(cls, cls.OPEN_METH[comptype])
+                if fileobj is not None:
+                    saved_pos = fileobj.tell()
+                try:
+                    return func(name, "r", fileobj, **kwargs)
+                except (ReadError, CompressionError) as e:
+                    error_msgs.append(f'- method {comptype}: {e!r}')
+                    if fileobj is not None:
+                        fileobj.seek(saved_pos)
+                    continue
+            error_msgs_summary = '\n'.join(error_msgs)
+            raise ReadError(f"file could not be opened successfully:\n{error_msgs_summary}")
+
+        elif ":" in mode:
+            filemode, comptype = mode.split(":", 1)
+            filemode = filemode or "r"
+            comptype = comptype or "tar"
+
+            # Select the *open() function according to
+            # given compression.
+            if comptype in cls.OPEN_METH:
+                func = getattr(cls, cls.OPEN_METH[comptype])
+            else:
+                raise CompressionError("unknown compression type %r" % comptype)
+            return func(name, filemode, fileobj, **kwargs)
+
+        elif "|" in mode:
+            filemode, comptype = mode.split("|", 1)
+            filemode = filemode or "r"
+            comptype = comptype or "tar"
+
+            if filemode not in ("r", "w"):
+                raise ValueError("mode must be 'r' or 'w'")
+
+            compresslevel = kwargs.pop("compresslevel", 9)
+            stream = _Stream(name, filemode, comptype, fileobj, bufsize,
+                             compresslevel)
+            try:
+                t = cls(name, filemode, stream, **kwargs)
+            except:
+                stream.close()
+                raise
+            t._extfileobj = False
+            return t
+
+        elif mode in ("a", "w", "x"):
+            return cls.taropen(name, mode, fileobj, **kwargs)
+
+        raise ValueError("undiscernible mode")
+
+    @classmethod
+    def taropen(cls, name, mode="r", fileobj=None, **kwargs):
+        """Open uncompressed tar archive name for reading or writing.
+        """
+        if mode not in ("r", "a", "w", "x"):
+            raise ValueError("mode must be 'r', 'a', 'w' or 'x'")
+        return cls(name, mode, fileobj, **kwargs)
+
+    @classmethod
+    def gzopen(cls, name, mode="r", fileobj=None, compresslevel=9, **kwargs):
+        """Open gzip compressed tar archive name for reading or writing.
+           Appending is not allowed.
+        """
+        if mode not in ("r", "w", "x"):
+            raise ValueError("mode must be 'r', 'w' or 'x'")
+
+        try:
+            from gzip import GzipFile
+        except ImportError:
+            raise CompressionError("gzip module is not available") from None
+
+        try:
+            fileobj = GzipFile(name, mode + "b", compresslevel, fileobj)
+        except OSError as e:
+            if fileobj is not None and mode == 'r':
+                raise ReadError("not a gzip file") from e
+            raise
+
+        try:
+            t = cls.taropen(name, mode, fileobj, **kwargs)
+        except OSError as e:
+            fileobj.close()
+            if mode == 'r':
+                raise ReadError("not a gzip file") from e
+            raise
+        except:
+            fileobj.close()
+            raise
+        t._extfileobj = False
+        return t
+
+    @classmethod
+    def bz2open(cls, name, mode="r", fileobj=None, compresslevel=9, **kwargs):
+        """Open bzip2 compressed tar archive name for reading or writing.
+           Appending is not allowed.
+        """
+        if mode not in ("r", "w", "x"):
+            raise ValueError("mode must be 'r', 'w' or 'x'")
+
+        try:
+            from bz2 import BZ2File
+        except ImportError:
+            raise CompressionError("bz2 module is not available") from None
+
+        fileobj = BZ2File(fileobj or name, mode, compresslevel=compresslevel)
+
+        try:
+            t = cls.taropen(name, mode, fileobj, **kwargs)
+        except (OSError, EOFError) as e:
+            fileobj.close()
+            if mode == 'r':
+                raise ReadError("not a bzip2 file") from e
+            raise
+        except:
+            fileobj.close()
+            raise
+        t._extfileobj = False
+        return t
+
+    @classmethod
+    def xzopen(cls, name, mode="r", fileobj=None, preset=None, **kwargs):
+        """Open lzma compressed tar archive name for reading or writing.
+           Appending is not allowed.
+        """
+        if mode not in ("r", "w", "x"):
+            raise ValueError("mode must be 'r', 'w' or 'x'")
+
+        try:
+            from lzma import LZMAFile, LZMAError
+        except ImportError:
+            raise CompressionError("lzma module is not available") from None
+
+        fileobj = LZMAFile(fileobj or name, mode, preset=preset)
+
+        try:
+            t = cls.taropen(name, mode, fileobj, **kwargs)
+        except (LZMAError, EOFError) as e:
+            fileobj.close()
+            if mode == 'r':
+                raise ReadError("not an lzma file") from e
+            raise
+        except:
+            fileobj.close()
+            raise
+        t._extfileobj = False
+        return t
+
+    # All *open() methods are registered here.
+    OPEN_METH = {
+        "tar": "taropen",   # uncompressed tar
+        "gz":  "gzopen",    # gzip compressed tar
+        "bz2": "bz2open",   # bzip2 compressed tar
+        "xz":  "xzopen"     # lzma compressed tar
+    }
+
+    #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+    # The public methods which TarFile provides:
+
+    def close(self):
+        """Close the TarFile. In write-mode, two finishing zero blocks are
+           appended to the archive.
+        """
+        if self.closed:
+            return
+
+        self.closed = True
+        try:
+            if self.mode in ("a", "w", "x"):
+                self.fileobj.write(NUL * (BLOCKSIZE * 2))
+                self.offset += (BLOCKSIZE * 2)
+                # fill up the end with zero-blocks
+                # (like option -b20 for tar does)
+                blocks, remainder = divmod(self.offset, RECORDSIZE)
+                if remainder > 0:
+                    self.fileobj.write(NUL * (RECORDSIZE - remainder))
+        finally:
+            if not self._extfileobj:
+                self.fileobj.close()
+
+    def getmember(self, name):
+        """Return a TarInfo object for member `name'. If `name' can not be
+           found in the archive, KeyError is raised. If a member occurs more
+           than once in the archive, its last occurrence is assumed to be the
+           most up-to-date version.
+        """
+        tarinfo = self._getmember(name.rstrip('/'))
+        if tarinfo is None:
+            raise KeyError("filename %r not found" % name)
+        return tarinfo
+
+    def getmembers(self):
+        """Return the members of the archive as a list of TarInfo objects. The
+           list has the same order as the members in the archive.
+        """
+        self._check()
+        if not self._loaded:    # if we want to obtain a list of
+            self._load()        # all members, we first have to
+                                # scan the whole archive.
+        return self.members
+
+    def getnames(self):
+        """Return the members of the archive as a list of their names. It has
+           the same order as the list returned by getmembers().
+        """
+        return [tarinfo.name for tarinfo in self.getmembers()]
+
+    def gettarinfo(self, name=None, arcname=None, fileobj=None):
+        """Create a TarInfo object from the result of os.stat or equivalent
+           on an existing file. The file is either named by `name', or
+           specified as a file object `fileobj' with a file descriptor. If
+           given, `arcname' specifies an alternative name for the file in the
+           archive, otherwise, the name is taken from the 'name' attribute of
+           'fileobj', or the 'name' argument. The name should be a text
+           string.
+        """
+        self._check("awx")
+
+        # When fileobj is given, replace name by
+        # fileobj's real name.
+        if fileobj is not None:
+            name = fileobj.name
+
+        # Building the name of the member in the archive.
+        # Backward slashes are converted to forward slashes,
+        # Absolute paths are turned to relative paths.
+        if arcname is None:
+            arcname = name
+        drv, arcname = os.path.splitdrive(arcname)
+        arcname = arcname.replace(os.sep, "/")
+        arcname = arcname.lstrip("/")
+
+        # Now, fill the TarInfo object with
+        # information specific for the file.
+        tarinfo = self.tarinfo()
+        tarinfo._tarfile = self  # To be removed in 3.16.
+
+        # Use os.stat or os.lstat, depending on if symlinks shall be resolved.
+        if fileobj is None:
+            if not self.dereference:
+                statres = os.lstat(name)
+            else:
+                statres = os.stat(name)
+        else:
+            statres = os.fstat(fileobj.fileno())
+        linkname = ""
+
+        stmd = statres.st_mode
+        if stat.S_ISREG(stmd):
+            inode = (statres.st_ino, statres.st_dev)
+            if not self.dereference and statres.st_nlink > 1 and \
+                    inode in self.inodes and arcname != self.inodes[inode]:
+                # Is it a hardlink to an already
+                # archived file?
+                type = LNKTYPE
+                linkname = self.inodes[inode]
+            else:
+                # The inode is added only if its valid.
+                # For win32 it is always 0.
+                type = REGTYPE
+                if inode[0]:
+                    self.inodes[inode] = arcname
+        elif stat.S_ISDIR(stmd):
+            type = DIRTYPE
+        elif stat.S_ISFIFO(stmd):
+            type = FIFOTYPE
+        elif stat.S_ISLNK(stmd):
+            type = SYMTYPE
+            linkname = os.readlink(name)
+        elif stat.S_ISCHR(stmd):
+            type = CHRTYPE
+        elif stat.S_ISBLK(stmd):
+            type = BLKTYPE
+        else:
+            return None
+
+        # Fill the TarInfo object with all
+        # information we can get.
+        tarinfo.name = arcname
+        tarinfo.mode = stmd
+        tarinfo.uid = statres.st_uid
+        tarinfo.gid = statres.st_gid
+        if type == REGTYPE:
+            tarinfo.size = statres.st_size
+        else:
+            tarinfo.size = 0
+        tarinfo.mtime = statres.st_mtime
+        tarinfo.type = type
+        tarinfo.linkname = linkname
+        if pwd:
+            try:
+                tarinfo.uname = pwd.getpwuid(tarinfo.uid)[0]
+            except KeyError:
+                pass
+        if grp:
+            try:
+                tarinfo.gname = grp.getgrgid(tarinfo.gid)[0]
+            except KeyError:
+                pass
+
+        if type in (CHRTYPE, BLKTYPE):
+            if hasattr(os, "major") and hasattr(os, "minor"):
+                tarinfo.devmajor = os.major(statres.st_rdev)
+                tarinfo.devminor = os.minor(statres.st_rdev)
+        return tarinfo
+
+    def list(self, verbose=True, *, members=None):
+        """Print a table of contents to sys.stdout. If `verbose' is False, only
+           the names of the members are printed. If it is True, an `ls -l'-like
+           output is produced. `members' is optional and must be a subset of the
+           list returned by getmembers().
+        """
+        # Convert tarinfo type to stat type.
+        type2mode = {REGTYPE: stat.S_IFREG, SYMTYPE: stat.S_IFLNK,
+                     FIFOTYPE: stat.S_IFIFO, CHRTYPE: stat.S_IFCHR,
+                     DIRTYPE: stat.S_IFDIR, BLKTYPE: stat.S_IFBLK}
+        self._check()
+
+        if members is None:
+            members = self
+        for tarinfo in members:
+            if verbose:
+                if tarinfo.mode is None:
+                    _safe_print("??????????")
+                else:
+                    modetype = type2mode.get(tarinfo.type, 0)
+                    _safe_print(stat.filemode(modetype | tarinfo.mode))
+                _safe_print("%s/%s" % (tarinfo.uname or tarinfo.uid,
+                                       tarinfo.gname or tarinfo.gid))
+                if tarinfo.ischr() or tarinfo.isblk():
+                    _safe_print("%10s" %
+                            ("%d,%d" % (tarinfo.devmajor, tarinfo.devminor)))
+                else:
+                    _safe_print("%10d" % tarinfo.size)
+                if tarinfo.mtime is None:
+                    _safe_print("????-??-?? ??:??:??")
+                else:
+                    _safe_print("%d-%02d-%02d %02d:%02d:%02d" \
+                                % time.localtime(tarinfo.mtime)[:6])
+
+            _safe_print(tarinfo.name + ("/" if tarinfo.isdir() else ""))
+
+            if verbose:
+                if tarinfo.issym():
+                    _safe_print("-> " + tarinfo.linkname)
+                if tarinfo.islnk():
+                    _safe_print("link to " + tarinfo.linkname)
+            print()
+
+    def add(self, name, arcname=None, recursive=True, *, filter=None):
+        """Add the file `name' to the archive. `name' may be any type of file
+           (directory, fifo, symbolic link, etc.). If given, `arcname'
+           specifies an alternative name for the file in the archive.
+           Directories are added recursively by default. This can be avoided by
+           setting `recursive' to False. `filter' is a function
+           that expects a TarInfo object argument and returns the changed
+           TarInfo object, if it returns None the TarInfo object will be
+           excluded from the archive.
+        """
+        self._check("awx")
+
+        if arcname is None:
+            arcname = name
+
+        # Skip if somebody tries to archive the archive...
+        if self.name is not None and os.path.abspath(name) == self.name:
+            self._dbg(2, "tarfile: Skipped %r" % name)
+            return
+
+        self._dbg(1, name)
+
+        # Create a TarInfo object from the file.
+        tarinfo = self.gettarinfo(name, arcname)
+
+        if tarinfo is None:
+            self._dbg(1, "tarfile: Unsupported type %r" % name)
+            return
+
+        # Change or exclude the TarInfo object.
+        if filter is not None:
+            tarinfo = filter(tarinfo)
+            if tarinfo is None:
+                self._dbg(2, "tarfile: Excluded %r" % name)
+                return
+
+        # Append the tar header and data to the archive.
+        if tarinfo.isreg():
+            with bltn_open(name, "rb") as f:
+                self.addfile(tarinfo, f)
+
+        elif tarinfo.isdir():
+            self.addfile(tarinfo)
+            if recursive:
+                for f in sorted(os.listdir(name)):
+                    self.add(os.path.join(name, f), os.path.join(arcname, f),
+                            recursive, filter=filter)
+
+        else:
+            self.addfile(tarinfo)
+
+    def addfile(self, tarinfo, fileobj=None):
+        """Add the TarInfo object `tarinfo' to the archive. If `tarinfo' represents
+           a non zero-size regular file, the `fileobj' argument should be a binary file,
+           and tarinfo.size bytes are read from it and added to the archive.
+           You can create TarInfo objects directly, or by using gettarinfo().
+        """
+        self._check("awx")
+
+        if fileobj is None and tarinfo.isreg() and tarinfo.size != 0:
+            raise ValueError("fileobj not provided for non zero-size regular file")
+
+        tarinfo = copy.copy(tarinfo)
+
+        buf = tarinfo.tobuf(self.format, self.encoding, self.errors)
+        self.fileobj.write(buf)
+        self.offset += len(buf)
+        bufsize=self.copybufsize
+        # If there's data to follow, append it.
+        if fileobj is not None:
+            copyfileobj(fileobj, self.fileobj, tarinfo.size, bufsize=bufsize)
+            blocks, remainder = divmod(tarinfo.size, BLOCKSIZE)
+            if remainder > 0:
+                self.fileobj.write(NUL * (BLOCKSIZE - remainder))
+                blocks += 1
+            self.offset += blocks * BLOCKSIZE
+
+        self.members.append(tarinfo)
+
+    def _get_filter_function(self, filter):
+        if filter is None:
+            filter = self.extraction_filter
+            if filter is None:
+                import warnings
+                warnings.warn(
+                    'Python 3.14 will, by default, filter extracted tar '
+                    + 'archives and reject files or modify their metadata. '
+                    + 'Use the filter argument to control this behavior.',
+                    DeprecationWarning, stacklevel=3)
+                return fully_trusted_filter
+            if isinstance(filter, str):
+                raise TypeError(
+                    'String names are not supported for '
+                    + 'TarFile.extraction_filter. Use a function such as '
+                    + 'tarfile.data_filter directly.')
+            return filter
+        if callable(filter):
+            return filter
+        try:
+            return _NAMED_FILTERS[filter]
+        except KeyError:
+            raise ValueError(f"filter {filter!r} not found") from None
+
+    def extractall(self, path=".", members=None, *, numeric_owner=False,
+                   filter=None):
+        """Extract all members from the archive to the current working
+           directory and set owner, modification time and permissions on
+           directories afterwards. `path' specifies a different directory
+           to extract to. `members' is optional and must be a subset of the
+           list returned by getmembers(). If `numeric_owner` is True, only
+           the numbers for user/group names are used and not the names.
+
+           The `filter` function will be called on each member just
+           before extraction.
+           It can return a changed TarInfo or None to skip the member.
+           String names of common filters are accepted.
+        """
+        directories = []
+
+        filter_function = self._get_filter_function(filter)
+        if members is None:
+            members = self
+
+        for member in members:
+            tarinfo, unfiltered = self._get_extract_tarinfo(
+                member, filter_function, path)
+            if tarinfo is None:
+                continue
+            if tarinfo.isdir():
+                # For directories, delay setting attributes until later,
+                # since permissions can interfere with extraction and
+                # extracting contents can reset mtime.
+                directories.append(unfiltered)
+            self._extract_one(tarinfo, path, set_attrs=not tarinfo.isdir(),
+                              numeric_owner=numeric_owner,
+                              filter_function=filter_function)
+
+        # Reverse sort directories.
+        directories.sort(key=lambda a: a.name, reverse=True)
+
+
+        # Set correct owner, mtime and filemode on directories.
+        for unfiltered in directories:
+            try:
+                # Need to re-apply any filter, to take the *current* filesystem
+                # state into account.
+                try:
+                    tarinfo = filter_function(unfiltered, path)
+                except _FILTER_ERRORS as exc:
+                    self._log_no_directory_fixup(unfiltered, repr(exc))
+                    continue
+                if tarinfo is None:
+                    self._log_no_directory_fixup(unfiltered,
+                                                 'excluded by filter')
+                    continue
+                dirpath = os.path.join(path, tarinfo.name)
+                try:
+                    lstat = os.lstat(dirpath)
+                except FileNotFoundError:
+                    self._log_no_directory_fixup(tarinfo, 'missing')
+                    continue
+                if not stat.S_ISDIR(lstat.st_mode):
+                    # This is no longer a directory; presumably a later
+                    # member overwrote the entry.
+                    self._log_no_directory_fixup(tarinfo, 'not a directory')
+                    continue
+                self.chown(tarinfo, dirpath, numeric_owner=numeric_owner)
+                self.utime(tarinfo, dirpath)
+                self.chmod(tarinfo, dirpath)
+            except ExtractError as e:
+                self._handle_nonfatal_error(e)
+
+    def _log_no_directory_fixup(self, member, reason):
+        self._dbg(2, "tarfile: Not fixing up directory %r (%s)" %
+                  (member.name, reason))
+
+    def extract(self, member, path="", set_attrs=True, *, numeric_owner=False,
+                filter=None):
+        """Extract a member from the archive to the current working directory,
+           using its full name. Its file information is extracted as accurately
+           as possible. `member' may be a filename or a TarInfo object. You can
+           specify a different directory using `path'. File attributes (owner,
+           mtime, mode) are set unless `set_attrs' is False. If `numeric_owner`
+           is True, only the numbers for user/group names are used and not
+           the names.
+
+           The `filter` function will be called before extraction.
+           It can return a changed TarInfo or None to skip the member.
+           String names of common filters are accepted.
+        """
+        filter_function = self._get_filter_function(filter)
+        tarinfo, unfiltered = self._get_extract_tarinfo(
+            member, filter_function, path)
+        if tarinfo is not None:
+            self._extract_one(tarinfo, path, set_attrs, numeric_owner)
+
+    def _get_extract_tarinfo(self, member, filter_function, path):
+        """Get (filtered, unfiltered) TarInfos from *member*
+
+        *member* might be a string.
+
+        Return (None, None) if not found.
+        """
+
+        if isinstance(member, str):
+            unfiltered = self.getmember(member)
+        else:
+            unfiltered = member
+
+        filtered = None
+        try:
+            filtered = filter_function(unfiltered, path)
+        except (OSError, UnicodeEncodeError, FilterError) as e:
+            self._handle_fatal_error(e)
+        except ExtractError as e:
+            self._handle_nonfatal_error(e)
+        if filtered is None:
+            self._dbg(2, "tarfile: Excluded %r" % unfiltered.name)
+            return None, None
+
+        # Prepare the link target for makelink().
+        if filtered.islnk():
+            filtered = copy.copy(filtered)
+            filtered._link_target = os.path.join(path, filtered.linkname)
+        return filtered, unfiltered
+
+    def _extract_one(self, tarinfo, path, set_attrs, numeric_owner,
+                     filter_function=None):
+        """Extract from filtered tarinfo to disk.
+
+           filter_function is only used when extracting a *different*
+           member (e.g. as fallback to creating a symlink)
+        """
+        self._check("r")
+
+        try:
+            self._extract_member(tarinfo, os.path.join(path, tarinfo.name),
+                                 set_attrs=set_attrs,
+                                 numeric_owner=numeric_owner,
+                                 filter_function=filter_function,
+                                 extraction_root=path)
+        except (OSError, UnicodeEncodeError) as e:
+            self._handle_fatal_error(e)
+        except ExtractError as e:
+            self._handle_nonfatal_error(e)
+
+    def _handle_nonfatal_error(self, e):
+        """Handle non-fatal error (ExtractError) according to errorlevel"""
+        if self.errorlevel > 1:
+            raise
+        else:
+            self._dbg(1, "tarfile: %s" % e)
+
+    def _handle_fatal_error(self, e):
+        """Handle "fatal" error according to self.errorlevel"""
+        if self.errorlevel > 0:
+            raise
+        elif isinstance(e, OSError):
+            if e.filename is None:
+                self._dbg(1, "tarfile: %s" % e.strerror)
+            else:
+                self._dbg(1, "tarfile: %s %r" % (e.strerror, e.filename))
+        else:
+            self._dbg(1, "tarfile: %s %s" % (type(e).__name__, e))
+
+    def extractfile(self, member):
+        """Extract a member from the archive as a file object. `member' may be
+           a filename or a TarInfo object. If `member' is a regular file or
+           a link, an io.BufferedReader object is returned. For all other
+           existing members, None is returned. If `member' does not appear
+           in the archive, KeyError is raised.
+        """
+        self._check("r")
+
+        if isinstance(member, str):
+            tarinfo = self.getmember(member)
+        else:
+            tarinfo = member
+
+        if tarinfo.isreg() or tarinfo.type not in SUPPORTED_TYPES:
+            # Members with unknown types are treated as regular files.
+            return self.fileobject(self, tarinfo)
+
+        elif tarinfo.islnk() or tarinfo.issym():
+            if isinstance(self.fileobj, _Stream):
+                # A small but ugly workaround for the case that someone tries
+                # to extract a (sym)link as a file-object from a non-seekable
+                # stream of tar blocks.
+                raise StreamError("cannot extract (sym)link as file object")
+            else:
+                # A (sym)link's file object is its target's file object.
+                return self.extractfile(self._find_link_target(tarinfo))
+        else:
+            # If there's no data associated with the member (directory, chrdev,
+            # blkdev, etc.), return None instead of a file object.
+            return None
+
+    def _extract_member(self, tarinfo, targetpath, set_attrs=True,
+                        numeric_owner=False, *, filter_function=None,
+                        extraction_root=None):
+        """Extract the filtered TarInfo object tarinfo to a physical
+           file called targetpath.
+
+           filter_function is only used when extracting a *different*
+           member (e.g. as fallback to creating a symlink)
+        """
+        # Fetch the TarInfo object for the given name
+        # and build the destination pathname, replacing
+        # forward slashes to platform specific separators.
+        targetpath = targetpath.rstrip("/")
+        targetpath = targetpath.replace("/", os.sep)
+
+        # Create all upper directories.
+        upperdirs = os.path.dirname(targetpath)
+        if upperdirs and not os.path.exists(upperdirs):
+            # Create directories that are not part of the archive with
+            # default permissions.
+            os.makedirs(upperdirs, exist_ok=True)
+
+        if tarinfo.islnk() or tarinfo.issym():
+            self._dbg(1, "%s -> %s" % (tarinfo.name, tarinfo.linkname))
+        else:
+            self._dbg(1, tarinfo.name)
+
+        if tarinfo.isreg():
+            self.makefile(tarinfo, targetpath)
+        elif tarinfo.isdir():
+            self.makedir(tarinfo, targetpath)
+        elif tarinfo.isfifo():
+            self.makefifo(tarinfo, targetpath)
+        elif tarinfo.ischr() or tarinfo.isblk():
+            self.makedev(tarinfo, targetpath)
+        elif tarinfo.islnk() or tarinfo.issym():
+            self.makelink_with_filter(
+                tarinfo, targetpath,
+                filter_function=filter_function,
+                extraction_root=extraction_root)
+        elif tarinfo.type not in SUPPORTED_TYPES:
+            self.makeunknown(tarinfo, targetpath)
+        else:
+            self.makefile(tarinfo, targetpath)
+
+        if set_attrs:
+            self.chown(tarinfo, targetpath, numeric_owner)
+            if not tarinfo.issym():
+                self.chmod(tarinfo, targetpath)
+                self.utime(tarinfo, targetpath)
+
+    #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+    # Below are the different file methods. They are called via
+    # _extract_member() when extract() is called. They can be replaced in a
+    # subclass to implement other functionality.
+
+    def makedir(self, tarinfo, targetpath):
+        """Make a directory called targetpath.
+        """
+        try:
+            if tarinfo.mode is None:
+                # Use the system's default mode
+                os.mkdir(targetpath)
+            else:
+                # Use a safe mode for the directory, the real mode is set
+                # later in _extract_member().
+                os.mkdir(targetpath, 0o700)
+        except FileExistsError:
+            if not os.path.isdir(targetpath):
+                raise
+
+    def makefile(self, tarinfo, targetpath):
+        """Make a file called targetpath.
+        """
+        source = self.fileobj
+        source.seek(tarinfo.offset_data)
+        bufsize = self.copybufsize
+        with bltn_open(targetpath, "wb") as target:
+            if tarinfo.sparse is not None:
+                for offset, size in tarinfo.sparse:
+                    target.seek(offset)
+                    copyfileobj(source, target, size, ReadError, bufsize)
+                target.seek(tarinfo.size)
+                target.truncate()
+            else:
+                copyfileobj(source, target, tarinfo.size, ReadError, bufsize)
+
+    def makeunknown(self, tarinfo, targetpath):
+        """Make a file from a TarInfo object with an unknown type
+           at targetpath.
+        """
+        self.makefile(tarinfo, targetpath)
+        self._dbg(1, "tarfile: Unknown file type %r, " \
+                     "extracted as regular file." % tarinfo.type)
+
+    def makefifo(self, tarinfo, targetpath):
+        """Make a fifo called targetpath.
+        """
+        if hasattr(os, "mkfifo"):
+            os.mkfifo(targetpath)
+        else:
+            raise ExtractError("fifo not supported by system")
+
+    def makedev(self, tarinfo, targetpath):
+        """Make a character or block device called targetpath.
+        """
+        if not hasattr(os, "mknod") or not hasattr(os, "makedev"):
+            raise ExtractError("special devices not supported by system")
+
+        mode = tarinfo.mode
+        if mode is None:
+            # Use mknod's default
+            mode = 0o600
+        if tarinfo.isblk():
+            mode |= stat.S_IFBLK
+        else:
+            mode |= stat.S_IFCHR
+
+        os.mknod(targetpath, mode,
+                 os.makedev(tarinfo.devmajor, tarinfo.devminor))
+
+    def makelink(self, tarinfo, targetpath):
+        return self.makelink_with_filter(tarinfo, targetpath, None, None)
+
+    def makelink_with_filter(self, tarinfo, targetpath,
+                             filter_function, extraction_root):
+        """Make a (symbolic) link called targetpath. If it cannot be created
+          (platform limitation), we try to make a copy of the referenced file
+          instead of a link.
+
+          filter_function is only used when extracting a *different*
+          member (e.g. as fallback to creating a link).
+        """
+        keyerror_to_extracterror = False
+        try:
+            # For systems that support symbolic and hard links.
+            if tarinfo.issym():
+                if os.path.lexists(targetpath):
+                    # Avoid FileExistsError on following os.symlink.
+                    os.unlink(targetpath)
+                os.symlink(tarinfo.linkname, targetpath)
+                return
+            else:
+                if os.path.exists(tarinfo._link_target):
+                    if os.path.lexists(targetpath):
+                        # Avoid FileExistsError on following os.link.
+                        os.unlink(targetpath)
+                    os.link(tarinfo._link_target, targetpath)
+                    return
+        except symlink_exception:
+            keyerror_to_extracterror = True
+
+        try:
+            unfiltered = self._find_link_target(tarinfo)
+        except KeyError:
+            if keyerror_to_extracterror:
+                raise ExtractError(
+                    "unable to resolve link inside archive") from None
+            else:
+                raise
+
+        if filter_function is None:
+            filtered = unfiltered
+        else:
+            if extraction_root is None:
+                raise ExtractError(
+                    "makelink_with_filter: if filter_function is not None, "
+                    + "extraction_root must also not be None")
+            try:
+                filtered = filter_function(unfiltered, extraction_root)
+            except _FILTER_ERRORS as cause:
+                raise LinkFallbackError(tarinfo, unfiltered.name) from cause
+        if filtered is not None:
+            self._extract_member(filtered, targetpath,
+                                 filter_function=filter_function,
+                                 extraction_root=extraction_root)
+
+    def chown(self, tarinfo, targetpath, numeric_owner):
+        """Set owner of targetpath according to tarinfo. If numeric_owner
+           is True, use .gid/.uid instead of .gname/.uname. If numeric_owner
+           is False, fall back to .gid/.uid when the search based on name
+           fails.
+        """
+        if hasattr(os, "geteuid") and os.geteuid() == 0:
+            # We have to be root to do so.
+            g = tarinfo.gid
+            u = tarinfo.uid
+            if not numeric_owner:
+                try:
+                    if grp and tarinfo.gname:
+                        g = grp.getgrnam(tarinfo.gname)[2]
+                except KeyError:
+                    pass
+                try:
+                    if pwd and tarinfo.uname:
+                        u = pwd.getpwnam(tarinfo.uname)[2]
+                except KeyError:
+                    pass
+            if g is None:
+                g = -1
+            if u is None:
+                u = -1
+            try:
+                if tarinfo.issym() and hasattr(os, "lchown"):
+                    os.lchown(targetpath, u, g)
+                else:
+                    os.chown(targetpath, u, g)
+            except (OSError, OverflowError) as e:
+                # OverflowError can be raised if an ID doesn't fit in `id_t`
+                raise ExtractError("could not change owner") from e
+
+    def chmod(self, tarinfo, targetpath):
+        """Set file permissions of targetpath according to tarinfo.
+        """
+        if tarinfo.mode is None:
+            return
+        try:
+            os.chmod(targetpath, tarinfo.mode)
+        except OSError as e:
+            raise ExtractError("could not change mode") from e
+
+    def utime(self, tarinfo, targetpath):
+        """Set modification time of targetpath according to tarinfo.
+        """
+        mtime = tarinfo.mtime
+        if mtime is None:
+            return
+        if not hasattr(os, 'utime'):
+            return
+        try:
+            os.utime(targetpath, (mtime, mtime))
+        except OSError as e:
+            raise ExtractError("could not change modification time") from e
+
+    #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+    def next(self):
+        """Return the next member of the archive as a TarInfo object, when
+           TarFile is opened for reading. Return None if there is no more
+           available.
+        """
+        self._check("ra")
+        if self.firstmember is not None:
+            m = self.firstmember
+            self.firstmember = None
+            return m
+
+        # Advance the file pointer.
+        if self.offset != self.fileobj.tell():
+            if self.offset == 0:
+                return None
+            self.fileobj.seek(self.offset - 1)
+            if not self.fileobj.read(1):
+                raise ReadError("unexpected end of data")
+
+        # Read the next block.
+        tarinfo = None
+        while True:
+            try:
+                tarinfo = self.tarinfo.fromtarfile(self)
+            except EOFHeaderError as e:
+                if self.ignore_zeros:
+                    self._dbg(2, "0x%X: %s" % (self.offset, e))
+                    self.offset += BLOCKSIZE
+                    continue
+            except InvalidHeaderError as e:
+                if self.ignore_zeros:
+                    self._dbg(2, "0x%X: %s" % (self.offset, e))
+                    self.offset += BLOCKSIZE
+                    continue
+                elif self.offset == 0:
+                    raise ReadError(str(e)) from None
+            except EmptyHeaderError:
+                if self.offset == 0:
+                    raise ReadError("empty file") from None
+            except TruncatedHeaderError as e:
+                if self.offset == 0:
+                    raise ReadError(str(e)) from None
+            except SubsequentHeaderError as e:
+                raise ReadError(str(e)) from None
+            except Exception as e:
+                try:
+                    import zlib
+                    if isinstance(e, zlib.error):
+                        raise ReadError(f'zlib error: {e}') from None
+                    else:
+                        raise e
+                except ImportError:
+                    raise e
+            break
+
+        if tarinfo is not None:
+            # if streaming the file we do not want to cache the tarinfo
+            if not self.stream:
+                self.members.append(tarinfo)
+        else:
+            self._loaded = True
+
+        return tarinfo
+
+    #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+    # Little helper methods:
+
+    def _getmember(self, name, tarinfo=None, normalize=False):
+        """Find an archive member by name from bottom to top.
+           If tarinfo is given, it is used as the starting point.
+        """
+        # Ensure that all members have been loaded.
+        members = self.getmembers()
+
+        # Limit the member search list up to tarinfo.
+        skipping = False
+        if tarinfo is not None:
+            try:
+                index = members.index(tarinfo)
+            except ValueError:
+                # The given starting point might be a (modified) copy.
+                # We'll later skip members until we find an equivalent.
+                skipping = True
+            else:
+                # Happy fast path
+                members = members[:index]
+
+        if normalize:
+            name = os.path.normpath(name)
+
+        for member in reversed(members):
+            if skipping:
+                if tarinfo.offset == member.offset:
+                    skipping = False
+                continue
+            if normalize:
+                member_name = os.path.normpath(member.name)
+            else:
+                member_name = member.name
+
+            if name == member_name:
+                return member
+
+        if skipping:
+            # Starting point was not found
+            raise ValueError(tarinfo)
+
+    def _load(self):
+        """Read through the entire archive file and look for readable
+           members. This should not run if the file is set to stream.
+        """
+        if not self.stream:
+            while self.next() is not None:
+                pass
+            self._loaded = True
+
+    def _check(self, mode=None):
+        """Check if TarFile is still open, and if the operation's mode
+           corresponds to TarFile's mode.
+        """
+        if self.closed:
+            raise OSError("%s is closed" % self.__class__.__name__)
+        if mode is not None and self.mode not in mode:
+            raise OSError("bad operation for mode %r" % self.mode)
+
+    def _find_link_target(self, tarinfo):
+        """Find the target member of a symlink or hardlink member in the
+           archive.
+        """
+        if tarinfo.issym():
+            # Always search the entire archive.
+            linkname = "/".join(filter(None, (os.path.dirname(tarinfo.name), tarinfo.linkname)))
+            limit = None
+        else:
+            # Search the archive before the link, because a hard link is
+            # just a reference to an already archived file.
+            linkname = tarinfo.linkname
+            limit = tarinfo
+
+        member = self._getmember(linkname, tarinfo=limit, normalize=True)
+        if member is None:
+            raise KeyError("linkname %r not found" % linkname)
+        return member
+
+    def __iter__(self):
+        """Provide an iterator object.
+        """
+        if self._loaded:
+            yield from self.members
+            return
+
+        # Yield items using TarFile's next() method.
+        # When all members have been read, set TarFile as _loaded.
+        index = 0
+        # Fix for SF #1100429: Under rare circumstances it can
+        # happen that getmembers() is called during iteration,
+        # which will have already exhausted the next() method.
+        if self.firstmember is not None:
+            tarinfo = self.next()
+            index += 1
+            yield tarinfo
+
+        while True:
+            if index < len(self.members):
+                tarinfo = self.members[index]
+            elif not self._loaded:
+                tarinfo = self.next()
+                if not tarinfo:
+                    self._loaded = True
+                    return
+            else:
+                return
+            index += 1
+            yield tarinfo
+
+    def _dbg(self, level, msg):
+        """Write debugging output to sys.stderr.
+        """
+        if level <= self.debug:
+            print(msg, file=sys.stderr)
+
+    def __enter__(self):
+        self._check()
+        return self
+
+    def __exit__(self, type, value, traceback):
+        if type is None:
+            self.close()
+        else:
+            # An exception occurred. We must not call close() because
+            # it would try to write end-of-archive blocks and padding.
+            if not self._extfileobj:
+                self.fileobj.close()
+            self.closed = True
+
+#--------------------
+# exported functions
+#--------------------
+
+def is_tarfile(name):
+    """Return True if name points to a tar archive that we
+       are able to handle, else return False.
+
+       'name' should be a string, file, or file-like object.
+    """
+    try:
+        if hasattr(name, "read"):
+            pos = name.tell()
+            t = open(fileobj=name)
+            name.seek(pos)
+        else:
+            t = open(name)
+        t.close()
+        return True
+    except TarError:
+        return False
+
+open = TarFile.open
+
+
+def main():
+    import argparse
+
+    description = 'A simple command-line interface for tarfile module.'
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=description)
+    parser.add_argument('-v', '--verbose', action='store_true', default=False,
+                        help='Verbose output')
+    parser.add_argument('--filter', metavar='<filtername>',
+                        choices=_NAMED_FILTERS,
+                        help='Filter for extraction')
+
+    group = parser.add_mutually_exclusive_group(required=True)
+    group.add_argument('-l', '--list', metavar='<tarfile>',
+                       help='Show listing of a tarfile')
+    group.add_argument('-e', '--extract', nargs='+',
+                       metavar=('<tarfile>', '<output_dir>'),
+                       help='Extract tarfile into target dir')
+    group.add_argument('-c', '--create', nargs='+',
+                       metavar=('<name>', '<file>'),
+                       help='Create tarfile from sources')
+    group.add_argument('-t', '--test', metavar='<tarfile>',
+                       help='Test if a tarfile is valid')
+
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+
+    if args.filter and args.extract is None:
+        parser.exit(1, '--filter is only valid for extraction\n')
+
+    if args.test is not None:
+        src = args.test
+        if is_tarfile(src):
+            with open(src, 'r') as tar:
+                tar.getmembers()
+                print(tar.getmembers(), file=sys.stderr)
+            if args.verbose:
+                print('{!r} is a tar archive.'.format(src))
+        else:
+            parser.exit(1, '{!r} is not a tar archive.\n'.format(src))
+
+    elif args.list is not None:
+        src = args.list
+        if is_tarfile(src):
+            with TarFile.open(src, 'r:*') as tf:
+                tf.list(verbose=args.verbose)
+        else:
+            parser.exit(1, '{!r} is not a tar archive.\n'.format(src))
+
+    elif args.extract is not None:
+        if len(args.extract) == 1:
+            src = args.extract[0]
+            curdir = os.curdir
+        elif len(args.extract) == 2:
+            src, curdir = args.extract
+        else:
+            parser.exit(1, parser.format_help())
+
+        if is_tarfile(src):
+            with TarFile.open(src, 'r:*') as tf:
+                tf.extractall(path=curdir, filter=args.filter)
+            if args.verbose:
+                if curdir == '.':
+                    msg = '{!r} file is extracted.'.format(src)
+                else:
+                    msg = ('{!r} file is extracted '
+                           'into {!r} directory.').format(src, curdir)
+                print(msg)
+        else:
+            parser.exit(1, '{!r} is not a tar archive.\n'.format(src))
+
+    elif args.create is not None:
+        tar_name = args.create.pop(0)
+        _, ext = os.path.splitext(tar_name)
+        compressions = {
+            # gz
+            '.gz': 'gz',
+            '.tgz': 'gz',
+            # xz
+            '.xz': 'xz',
+            '.txz': 'xz',
+            # bz2
+            '.bz2': 'bz2',
+            '.tbz': 'bz2',
+            '.tbz2': 'bz2',
+            '.tb2': 'bz2',
+        }
+        tar_mode = 'w:' + compressions[ext] if ext in compressions else 'w'
+        tar_files = args.create
+
+        with TarFile.open(tar_name, tar_mode) as tf:
+            for file_name in tar_files:
+                tf.add(file_name)
+
+        if args.verbose:
+            print('{!r} file created.'.format(tar_name))
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    main()