Re: [Bug-tar] gtar 1.15.92 delayed chown/chmod

[Joerg Schilling]

"Sergey Poznyakoff" <address@hidden> wrote:

> Dat Head <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > i'm a little confused by the reply, on one hand it
> > sounds like you are saying that is the way it is,
> > but on next, you say that is a bug?
>
> Possibly I didn't explain myself very well. It is normal that
> tar delays restoration of the directory privileges until the end
> of extraction.  But the bug is that it does not restore the privileges
> upon receiving a SIGINTR. 

It may be usual for GNU tar, however other tar implementation do it different.

star e.g. flushes the delayed directory information after a directory has been
completely extracted and does not wait until the complete extraction has been 
done.

Jörg

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