On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 19:58 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Hi David, > > > During incremental restore, before removing entities that have gone > > away, tar performs a 'stat' call. However, this stat call is > > dereferencing. If the previously existing entity is a symlink that > > does not resolve correctly, this causes tar to print a warning, and > > not remove the entity. > > That sounds like a problem recently reported. > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2005-08/msg00023.html
Yes. That looks like the same problem. A build of tar 1.15.1 patched with the fix I sent before passes the script in the report. David _______________________________________________ Bug-tar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-tar
