bug#23285: tar lacks a 'preserve symlinks on extract' option

tag 23285 notabug thanks On 04/13/2016 02:58 PM, Jason Vas Dias wrote: > There appears to be no way of telling tar > not to replace a destination symlink with a directory , > in this scenario : Thanks for the report. However, you've reached the coreutils list, which does not include tar; and

bug#23285: tar lacks a 'preserve symlinks on extract' option

There appears to be no way of telling tar not to replace a destination symlink with a directory , in this scenario : $ cd /tmp $ mkdir d s t $ ln -s ../t d/t $ mkdir s/t $ touch s/t/f $ (cd s; tar -cpf - .) | (cd d; tar -xpf -) $ ls -R d d: t d/t: f On extraction, tar has replaced the symlink

bug#23283: 'tail -f' reports "unrecognized file system" for Plexistor's M1FS

Hi, We (Plexistor Ltd.) are offering the first file-system to support persistent memory. You can download the community edition from our website: http://www.plexistor.com/download/ Our customers are reporting the issue mentioned in the title for our FS, this is a common output: > $ tail -f file >

Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] test: Add unary operator -E: test that a file is an empty directory

On Wed, 13 Apr 2016 16:16:54 +0100 Stephane Chazelas wrote: > 2016-04-07 10:34:56 +0200, Mattias Andrée: > [] > > + if (!dir) > > +{ > > + error (0, errno, "%s", dirname); > > + test_exit (TEST_FAILURE); > > +} > > Note that it means it

Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] test: Add unary operator -E: test that a file is an empty directory

2016-04-07 10:34:56 +0200, Mattias Andrée: [] > + if (!dir) > +{ > + error (0, errno, "%s", dirname); > + test_exit (TEST_FAILURE); > +} Note that it means it makes it the first operator that would actually cause "test" to output something. A test for non-empty without

Re: Whats the reason to suppress short unicode characters in printf?

2016-04-05 08:02:14 -0600, Eric Blake: [...] > That said, it may be time to consider teaching coreutils to accept ALL > \u escapes, rather than just the ones required by C99, as an > extension for ease of use. [...] Especially considering that the current POSIX draft for sh's $'\u' and