Bug#890810: Handling of symbolic links has been broken

2018-04-26 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
(My apologies for the late reply. Your mail never arrived, and I only discovered it on the WWW interface yesterday.) Thorsten Glaser: I’ve noticed an error (in the native BSD environment) which I believe to be related, if not the same, but haven’t gotten around to debugging yet. I’ll have

Bug#890810: Handling of symbolic links has been broken

2018-02-19 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Hi Jonathan, > pax is incorrectly using utimes() to attempt to set the timestamps of symbolic > links, rather than utimensat() with AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW. thanks for the preliminary analysis. I’ve noticed an error (in the native BSD environment) which I believe to be related, if not the same, but

Bug#890810: Handling of symbolic links has been broken

2018-02-18 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
Package: pax Version: 1:20161104-2 pax is incorrectly using utimes() to attempt to set the timestamps of symbolic links, rather than utimensat() with AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW. $ install -d -m 0755 a b $ ln -s /etc/motd a/c $ cd a $ pax -r -w * ../b/ pax: Access/modification time set failed on: