Bug report, GNU tar 1.11.1

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From: Granville Boman Goza, IV
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1992 20:03

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  I thinks that I have found a bug.  I got GNU tar 1.11.1 and compiled without
any problems.  When I tar a users home directory as root it changes all of the
directories to be owned by root (originally owned by the user).


  tar cf - <users_home_directory> | (cd <new_partition>; tar xvpf -)

The only change I make to the code was in create.c on line 606, I casted the
alloca to a char *.  My system is a Sparc 690 running 4.1.2.

Gran
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