Re: Bug?

[Anthony Tuininga]

Ok. I did a little more checking and the original bug report is a red
herring. This is the real problem... :-)

We have a gzipped tar file of approximately 500 MB (size is not
important other than in terms of the time taken to extract) and the /etc
files are at the beginning of the archive. So we did the following

tar zxvf archive.tgz etc

and when the files in the etc directory had been extracted (but the
archive was still being read), we hit Ctrl-C which stopped the process.
At this point, the symbolic links were not restored correctly. If,
however, we let the process run to the end without any interruption, the
symbolic links were restored correctly.

It would seem to me that the restoration of symbolic links is postponed
until the end of the process. Is that true? And is there any better way
of handling the restoration of symbolic links in the case of an
interruption?

On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 12:13, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Anthony Tuininga <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > We have a gzipped tar image created from two different filesystems with
> > the tar file going on to a third filesystem. When we do this, all
> > symbolic links within the gzipped tar file become zero length files
> > without any permissions.
> 
> That indeed sounds like a bug.  Can you write a self-contained test
> case that illustrates the bug, so that we can reproduce it here?
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