Re: [Bug-tar] Bug with files which have hardlinks

2010-10-11 Thread Bob Proulx
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

Re: [Bug-tar] Bug with files which have hardlinks

2010-10-11 Thread Bob Proulx
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

[Bug-tar] [PATCH] gnulib: sync from latest gnulib, notably bootstrap and parse-datetime

2010-10-11 Thread Paul Eggert
* bootstrap: Sync from gnulib. * doc/.gitignore: Rename getdate.texi to parse-datetime.texi. * doc/Makefile.am (tar_TEXINFOS): Likewise. * doc/tar.texi (Top): Adjust to renaming of getdate to parse-datetime. * gnulib.modules: Likewise. Also, remove ftruncate (now obsolete). And add inttostr (we