// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.

// Package tar implements access to tar archives.
//
// Tape archives (tar) are a file format for storing a sequence of files that
// can be read and written in a streaming manner.
// This package aims to cover most variations of the format,
// including those produced by GNU and BSD tar tools.
package tar

import (
	"errors"
	"fmt"
	"internal/godebug"
	"io/fs"
	"math"

			// versions of Go, we skeptically parse the atime and ctime fields.
			// If we are unable to parse them and the prefix field looks like
			// an ASCII string, then we fallback on the pre-Go1.8 behavior
			// of treating these fields as the USTAR prefix field.
			//
			// Note that this will not use the fallback logic for all possible
			// files generated by a pre-Go1.8 toolchain. If the generated file