Here is a report of a problem that still exists in pax.

I'll see if I can reproduce it and/or fix it...

-Tom

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Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 16:22:29 -0700
From: Nathan Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: broken pax


Tom,

Your tomsrtbt is an amazing construction.

I used pax on 1.7.134 to unpack a big tarball, and it
completely messed up the hard links.  Pax has some
kind of off-by-one problem, so names that come in
adjacent to groups of file names that share a single
inode also get linked to that inode.  This makes it
rather hazardous to use pax at all.

This has got to be the biggest problem on your distro.

Has anybody else reported this?  Do you feel equipped
to work on it, or is there somebody else I should be
reporting it to?

Nathan Myers
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

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