From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Apr 10 09:30:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA16298 for bugs-outgoing; Thu, 10 Apr 1997 09:30:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA16291; Thu, 10 Apr 1997 09:30:03 -0700 (PDT) Resent-Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 09:30:03 -0700 (PDT) Resent-Message-Id: <199704101630.JAA16291@freefall.freebsd.org> Resent-From: gnats (GNATS Management) Resent-To: freebsd-bugs Resent-Reply-To: FreeBSD-gnats@freefall.FreeBSD.org, eserte@cs.tu-berlin.de Received: from cabulja.herceg.de (dial1-05.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE [130.149.1.165]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA16052 for ; Thu, 10 Apr 1997 09:24:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from eserte@localhost) by cabulja.herceg.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA01185; Thu, 10 Apr 1997 15:27:40 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <199704101327.PAA01185@cabulja.herceg.de> Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 15:27:40 +0200 (CEST) From: eserte@cs.tu-berlin.de Reply-To: eserte@cs.tu-berlin.de To: freefall-gnats@cabulja.herceg.de X-Send-Pr-Version: 3.2 Subject: gnu/3247: tar -O creates directories Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >Number: 3247 >Category: gnu >Synopsis: tar -O creates directories >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Thu Apr 10 09:30:02 PDT 1997 >Last-Modified: >Originator: Slaven Rezic >Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Berlin, Germany >Release: FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE i386 >Environment: >Description: tar -O creates directories. Since -O extracts files to standard output, I think that no directories should be created. >How-To-Repeat: tar xfvOz something.tar.gz >Fix: Maybe there's a newer version of GNU tar with the bug already fixed? >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: