Re: [Bug-tar] Extract with ?rwx since 1.14?

[Joerg Schilling]

Ralph Sontag <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi,
> I have a Wireless Router, which has a tar:
> BusyBox v1.00-pre2 (2003.08.30-16:40+0000) multi-call binary
>
> If I make a tar archive in the common way with
> tar cvf x.tar x
> on my computer and transfer it to the router, all works fine with tar 1.13.
>
> But if I use tar 1.14 or tar 1.15.1, it does'nt work:
>
> router# tar tvf x.tar
> ?rwxr-xr-x 4266/100         0 2005-05-13 21:42:44 x
> ?rwxr-xr-x 4266/100         0 2005-05-13 21:42:50 x/y
> ?rw-r--r-- 4266/100         7 2005-05-13 21:42:50 x/y/b
> ?rw-r--r-- 4266/100         7 2005-05-13 21:42:40 x/a
> router# tar xvf x.tar
> x
> tar: Unrecognised file type

I cannot reproduce your problem.

What happens when you try to list the archive using "star"?

Jörg

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