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1 total messages Started by Chris Sherman Wed, 27 Jan 1993 02:55
bug in gnu-tar
#1343
Author: Chris Sherman
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 02:55
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Problem 1:
This one is probably know, but when I do the following:

   gtar cvf machine:/dev/tape/device .
   gtar cvf /dev/tape/device .

It should list the files as they are being processed.  But all I get is blank
lines.  The amount the screen scrolls is the same as if it printed out the 
lines like it should have.  It looks like the 'puts("\n")' are getting
hit, just not the useful printf's.

This is on HP/UX, 8.07, long file names.  Stuff like such as 

   gtar tvf machine:/dev/tape/device

works just fine.


Problem 2:

I'm going to try to copy the gtar directory to the /tmp disk, into a directory
called thing.

  mkdir /tmp/thing
  gtar cf - . | ( cd /tmp/thing ; ~/stuff/gtar/gtar xvf - )

Here is what happened (slightly reformatted for mail):

------------------------------------
./
Reading .
tar-1.11.tar.Z
/s/dizzy.unx.sas.com/local/u/sherman/stuff/gtar/gtar: couldn't change
access and modification times of t_qF
Xx-,4W~XphzV.Zv{QLBWugDK.kGr2F#6xfoL@C<.LY4qSFY^Wu;s||!UU`7o1d['BTuOh8_
</GKYF*}F:z : No such file or directory

/nfs/dizzy.unx.sas.com/local/u/sherman/stuff/gtar/gtar: cannot change mode
of fi;s||!UF
Xx-,4W~XphzV.Zv{QLBWugDK.kGr2F#6xfoL@C<.LY4qSFY^Wuq>EZJdU`7o1d['BTuOh8_</GKYF*}F:z
to 420 : No such file or directory Makefile

/nfs/dizzy.unx.sas.com/local/u/sherman/stuff/gtar/gtar: couldn't change
access and modification times of you have the freedom to distribute copies
of free software (and charge for this service if you wish), that you
receive source code or can get it if you want it, that you can change the
software or use pieces of it
------------------------------------

And it promptly took off and started listing the rest of the contents of
the tar file.

This is a major crash.  Oh, 3 files did make it into /tmp/thing before I 
stopped it: COPYING, Makefile, and tar-1.11.tar.Z.  All of them were the
right size and contents, but the wrong time stamp.


Anyway, thought you would like to know...

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