1 This patch was fed back to the upstream community:

     2 http://code.google.com/p/libarchive/issues/detail?id=287

     3 Given the response "I just committed your patch.", it should

     4 no longer be needed with the next release.

     5 

     6 --- libarchive/libarchive/archive_write_set_format_ar.c.orig	Mon Mar 26 19:49:00 2012

     7 +++ libarchive/libarchive/archive_write_set_format_ar.c	Tue Nov 27 17:48:04 2012

     8 @@ -165,7 +165,7 @@

     9  	 * Reject files with empty name.

    10  	 */

    11  	pathname = archive_entry_pathname(entry);

    12 -	if (*pathname == '\0') {

    13 +	if (pathname == NULL || *pathname == '\0') {

    14  		archive_set_error(&a->archive, EINVAL,

    15  		    "Invalid filename");

    16  		return (ARCHIVE_WARN);