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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