Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:
Bob Proulx ha escrit:
Why did having afile hardlinked to another file change the behavior of
tar? Why did having afile's hardlink count greater than 1 cause tar
to think that afile was a hardlink to afile?
Tar uses a kind of guesswork to decide whether a file is
Paul Eggert wrote:
Bob Proulx wrote:
Why did having afile hardlinked to another file change the behavior of
tar?
You're absolutely right, and this bug was fixed in August:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/tar.git/commit/?id=37ddfb0b7eb41cc3f58bce686d389b1e965e9ccf
and this fix should
Paul Eggert wrote:
Thomas Graf wrote:
touch afile
link afile hlink
gtar -cvvf x.tar afile afile afile
-rw-r--r-- tom/users 0 2010-10-08 01:49 afile
hrw-r--r-- tom/users 0 2010-10-08 01:49 afile link to afile
hrw-r--r-- tom/users 0 2010-10-08 01:49 afile link to
Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com ha escrit:
Why did having afile hardlinked to another file change the behavior of
tar? Why did having afile's hardlink count greater than 1 cause tar
to think that afile was a hardlink to afile?
Tar uses a kind of guesswork to decide whether a file is a hard link
Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote:
That does seem odd to me. Compare these two cases:
$ date -R afile
$ ls -l afile
-rw-rw-r-- 1 bob bob 32 2010-10-09 01:07 afile
$ tar cvvf x.tar afile afile afile
-rw-rw-r-- bob/bob 32 2010-10-09 01:07 afile
-rw-rw-r-- bob/bob
On 10/09/2010 12:19 AM, Bob Proulx wrote:
Why did having afile hardlinked to another file change the behavior of
tar?
You're absolutely right, and this bug was fixed in August:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/tar.git/commit/?id=37ddfb0b7eb41cc3f58bce686d389b1e965e9ccf
and this fix should
On Oct 9, 2010, at 12:19 AM, Bob Proulx wrote:
$ tar cvvf x.tar afile afile afile
This is a somewhat strange request you're making.
I doubt many tar implementations have done anything to
optimize this specific case (de-duping the argument list
would be one strategy, although -C handling makes
Paul Eggert egg...@cs.ucla.edu wrote:
On 10/07/2010 04:51 PM, Thomas Graf wrote:
touch afile
link afile hlink
gtar -cvvf x.tar afile afile afile
-rw-r--r-- tom/users 0 2010-10-08 01:49 afile
hrw-r--r-- tom/users 0 2010-10-08 01:49 afile link to afile
hrw-r--r--
On 10/07/2010 04:51 PM, Thomas Graf wrote:
touch afile
link afile hlink
gtar -cvvf x.tar afile afile afile
-rw-r--r-- tom/users 0 2010-10-08 01:49 afile
hrw-r--r-- tom/users 0 2010-10-08 01:49 afile link to afile
hrw-r--r-- tom/users 0 2010-10-08 01:49 afile link to
