[Bug-tar] Bug in gtar in SunOS with 139099-01 patch.

[LECLERC Bertrand (EXT)]

Hello,

 

Sorry for my English.

 

I discovered the following bug on gtar SunOS (Unix) with the following patch, 139099-01, and this argument : --atime-preserve

 

This option generates the following error under certain conditions :

 

tar: ... : Cannot utime: Not owner
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

Example :

I'm root, I created a directory and I change mode in 777, I created a file and change mode in 755 ...

 

# cd /tmp

# mkdir tmp2

# chmod 777 tmp2
# cd tmp2

# man ls >ls.man

# ls -l
total 80
-rw-r-----   1 root     root         37K Jan 21 16:33 ls.man

# chmod 755 ls.man
# ls -l

total 80
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root         37K Jan 21 16:33 ls.man

Now, I change user, with my user, bleclerc and I execute a gtar in "--atime-preserve" option ......

 

# su - bleclerc

$ cd /tmp/tmp2

$ gtar --atime-preserve -c -f ./ls.man.tar ./ls.man
gtar: ./ls.man: Cannot utime: Not owner
gtar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

$ echo $?
2

Remove the patch 139099-01 no longer generates the error.

 

Thank you,

 

Best regards,

 

Bertrand LECLERC (France).

 

 

 

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