Re: [Bug-tar] tar 1.16: cannot unpack symlinks in read-only directories

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Eelco Dolstra <address@hidden> wrote:

> It seems that GNU tar 1.16 has a problem unpacking archives that have symlinks
> in read-only directories.  Example:

Thank you. Here is the fix:

Index: src/extract.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/tar/tar/src/extract.c,v
retrieving revision 1.95
diff -p -u -r1.95 extract.c
--- src/extract.c       24 Jun 2006 16:48:08 -0000      1.95
+++ src/extract.c       31 Oct 2006 20:10:26 -0000
@@ -871,7 +871,7 @@ create_placeholder_file (char *file_name
       if (h && ! h->after_links
          && strncmp (file_name, h->file_name, h->file_name_len) == 0
          && ISSLASH (file_name[h->file_name_len])
-         && (base_name (file_name) == file_name + h->file_name_len + 1))
+         && (last_component (file_name) == file_name + h->file_name_len + 1))
        {
          do
            {




Regards,
Sergey