i'm a little confused by the reply, on one hand it
sounds like you are saying that is the way it is,
but on next, you say that is a bug?

note that it seemed to do it (possibly exclusively) on
symlinks that were at the time dangling.

On 10/24/06, Sergey Poznyakoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Dat Head <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> why does gtar delay chown/chmod until end for some files

Tar delays restoration of privileges for directories, because resetting
them at once might interfere with further extracting files into them
(e.g. if a directory is read only).  For the rest of files the
privileges and ownership are restored right after extraction.

> i then want to ctrl-c the gtar -x restore after i know it has gone past all
> of the data i want but then it leaves files as mode 000/root.root

That's certainly a bug.  Thanks for reporting.


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