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

[Dat Head]

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?

note that it seemed to do it (possibly exclusively) on
symlinks that were at the time dangling.

On 10/24/06, Sergey Poznyakoff <address@hidden> wrote:
> Dat Head <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > why does gtar delay chown/chmod until end for some files
>
> Tar delays restoration of privileges for directories, because resetting
> them at once might interfere with further extracting files into them
> (e.g. if a directory is read only).  For the rest of files the
> privileges and ownership are restored right after extraction.
>
> > i then want to ctrl-c the gtar -x restore after i know it has gone past all
> > of the data i want but then it leaves files as mode 000/root.root
>
> That's certainly a bug.  Thanks for reporting.