[Bug-tar] Re: incremental backups and --one-file-system (version 1.25)

2010-11-23 Thread Paul Eggert
On 11/22/2010 07:05 PM, Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: I know you saw the message from Martin Weigel [since you replied to it], but I'm wondering if you noticed that the message included a replacement line of code No, sorry, I missed that. Thanks for pointing it out. I pushed the following

Re: [Bug-tar] Re: incremental backups and --one-file-system (version 1.25)

2010-11-23 Thread Sergey Poznyakoff
Paul Eggert egg...@cs.ucla.edu ha escrit: I pushed the following patch; could you please give it a try? It feels a bit strange to be fixing a bug by removing a hash table, so it'd be nice to have another pair of eyes look at this. Looks nice. It works for me. Regards, Sergey

Re: [Bug-tar] bug report: tar backup script 'backup (GNU tar) 1.25: option '-l' is not recognized

2010-11-23 Thread Dennis Wydra
Thank you for your reply. Yes, that patch works for me as well! Best Regards

Re: [Bug-tar] tar-1.25: test 39 fails on FreeBSD

2010-11-23 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Paul Eggert: If I understand things correctly, src/extract.c's extract_file is invoking open_output_file, which returns -1 with errno==ELOOP. extract_file then should invoke: maybe_recoverable (./file1, true, interdir_made) maybe_recoverable should execute this code: if

Re: [Bug-tar] tar-1.25: test 39 fails on FreeBSD

2010-11-23 Thread Paul Eggert
On 11/23/10 08:16, Joerg Schilling wrote: The POSIX standard requires errno to be ELOOP in this case. Quite right. And I see that this incompatibility is not fixed in FreeBSD 9-current, at least according to the published manual page. Christian, would you please report this to the FreeBSD

[Bug-tar] bug in pax_dump_header_1()?

2010-11-23 Thread Bernd Schubert
Hello all, I'm not sure, but I think there is a generic bug in pax_dump_header_1(). However, the only way to trigger that seems to include the patches from RedHat patched tar versions to add --xattr support. As we (DDN) usually use tar to create backups of Lustre MDTs (meta data targets), we

[Bug-tar] [PATCH] tar: remove unused function dir_removed_diag

2010-11-23 Thread Paul Eggert
I pushed this obvious minor cleanup. * src/common.h (dir_removed_diag): Remove unused decl. * src/misc.c (dir_removed_diag): Remove unused function. --- src/common.h |2 -- src/misc.c | 15 --- 2 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/common.h