On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Tyson Tucker <[email protected]>wrote:

> I haven't figured out what makes the duplicate files/directories special,
> but some are duplicated up to three times in the tar file.  I've tested it
> on versions 1.17 and 1.22 on Solaris and 1.22 on Linux.
>

I should add that it seems to be deterministic, ie if a gets added 3 times
on one run, it will be added times every run.  Also, the limit isn't 3
duplicates, I've now seen up to 5.

Thanks,
Tyson


>
> To reproduce:
>
> find /usr/local/lib /usr/local/share > test_file
> tar -c --files-from=test_file -f /tmp/test.tar
> tar -tf /tmp/test.tar | sort | uniq -d
>
> Let me know if you need any more details.
>
> Thank you,
> Tyson
>

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