Hi list, I report here a minor bug in the last tar.
jupiter% tar --version | head -1 tar (GNU tar) 1.22.90 jupiter% tar tvf /dev/null --owner=no-such-owner /etc/passwd tar: no-such-owner: Invalid owner tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now jupiter% tar tvf /dev/null --group=no-such-group /etc/passwd tar: no-such-group: %s: Invalid group tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now jupiter% The second error message is probably wrong (extraneous `%s: '). By the way, it seems to me that it should be possible to have these commands (above) succeed. After all, the tar file is not dedicated to local consumption: the local existence or nonexistence of any group or owner is not sufficient to forbid the creation of such a tar file. Regards. Denis Excoffier.
