Re: [Bug-tar] more on woes with --listed-incremental

[Dat Head]

dathead2 writes:

>at some point the --listed-incremental file went from having all the
>file names in it to just the dirs (this is a good thing, as it is much
>smaller [and uses less memory])

would it be possible to roll gtar back to this method until the other
method is fixed?

>so for this [new] method to work, i assume what gtar does is if it sees the
>directory mtime changed, it then interogates all files in that dir to
>see if their mtime (or, i would hope ctime?) is newer or equal to the
>dir mtime; however, it appears this later stage is not working right,
>here is a simple test to see: [clipped out...]

Helmut Waitzmann wrote:

> There may be systems, which don't update the st_ctime field when renaming
> (see rename(2)) (not linking or unlinking) a file, which is permitted by
> the Single Unix Specification.

IMHO they should not have allowed that.