i don't know if most of us are qualified to do this. file util programming can be very tricky.
as proof, if you come to tonight's meeting, i'm going to talk about a *very* interesting race condition with rm. pete "i have as much free time as mark, perhaps less" salzman begin Mark K. Kim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > It's a chance for someone to contribute to OSS... someone go for it. > > -Mark "no-time" Kim > > On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Shawn P. Neugebauer wrote: > > > On Tuesday 04 June 2002 02:23 pm, you wrote: > > > On Tuesday 04 June 2002 12:54 pm, you wrote: > > > [snip] > > > > > > > it _sucks royally_ that tar seems to destroy the archive when you delete > > > > an unknown file: > > > > > > > > p@satan% file test.tar > > > > test.tar: GNU tar archive > > > > p@satan% tar f test.tar --delete "test/biteme" > > > > tar: test/biteme: Not found in archive > > > > tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors > > > > p@satan% file test.tar > > > > test.tar: data > > > > > > it also deletes the archive if you don't list a file (or files). yes, this > > > is weird and were it not consistent i would call it a bug, but it's > > > probably some kind of "feature." > > > > well, this *is* a bug! i noticed it when testing stuff to answer pete's > > question, but ignored it. then we pete mentioned it again, i started > > poking around. can't find any mention of it anywhere. however, the > > tar man/info page at gnu.org says > > "if you list no member names, nothing will be deleted" > > and this is clearly violated. as pete noticed, it also destroys the > > archive if a member name is not actually a member. > > > > i reported this to bugzilla.redhat.com for version 7.1 and got a > > quick reply that "it works in 7.3." however, i just tested it with 7.3 > > and it's broken there, too; i added a comment to this. > > > > FYI, this is tar-1.13.19-4 on RH 7.1 and tar-1.13.25-4 on RH 7.3. > > > > shawn. _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
