Ben Walton <[email protected]> wrote: > Excerpts from Philip Brown's message of Mon Nov 15 12:13:52 -0500 2010: > > > So, seems like the GNU tar folks have recently become incompetant, > > and we need to not trust new releases for a few months. I'll > > backrev to 1.23 I think. > > This could be centred on the same bug that showed up in coreutils > after U9 came out. There is an issue with setting time stamps in > gnulib that was exposed by a change in U9. Given that gtar uses > gnulib and will be setting timestamps as it extracts files, I wouldn't > be surprised if it's the same issue.
The GNUtar people seem to be working on a change from open() and similar towards openat() and similar. For many OS, there is a need for a emulation and it seems that the wrapper code does not always work currectly. It would be of interest whether the problems occur on Solaris 9 or newer or on Solaris 8. I am planning a similar move for stare in the near future and I hope that I will be able to do this with less visible effects. Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers .:: This mailing list's archive is public. ::.
