Re: [Bug-tar] Tar 1.27 has become non-deterministic

[Paul Eggert]

David Barri wrote:
> Sure. Here's a diff between two tars I created using tar -cp -T filelist
> 
>> > diff -u <(xxd a.tar) <(xxd b.tar)

I'm afraid that's not enough information for me to reproduce the problem,
nor do I get the significance of those differences.

Here's how I tried (and failed) to reproduce the problem:

$ echo foo >foo
$ tar -cf tar1 foo
$ tar -cf tar2 foo
$ cmp tar1 tar2
$