dathead2 writes: >at some point the --listed-incremental file went from having all the >file names in it to just the dirs (this is a good thing, as it is much >smaller [and uses less memory])
would it be possible to roll gtar back to this method until the other method is fixed? >so for this [new] method to work, i assume what gtar does is if it sees the >directory mtime changed, it then interogates all files in that dir to >see if their mtime (or, i would hope ctime?) is newer or equal to the >dir mtime; however, it appears this later stage is not working right, >here is a simple test to see: [clipped out...] Helmut Waitzmann wrote: > There may be systems, which don't update the st_ctime field when renaming > (see rename(2)) (not linking or unlinking) a file, which is permitted by > the Single Unix Specification. IMHO they should not have allowed that. _______________________________________________ Bug-tar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-tar
