Function calc_chksums

tools/python-3.11.9-amd64/Lib/tarfile.py:226–237

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 differen

(buf)

    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.