Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 01:30:02 -0700 (PDT) From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-bugs Subject: Re: gnu/3247: tar -O creates directories Message-ID: <199704130830.BAA23714@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR gnu/3247; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To: eserte@cs.tu-berlin.de
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: gnu/3247: tar -O creates directories
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 09:58:05 +0200
As Slaven Rezic wrote:
> Jörg, try:
>
> 4:55 eserte@cabulja 301 (/tmp): tar -xOzf foobar.tar.gz > /dev/null
> 4:56 eserte@cabulja 302 (/tmp): ls -lR foo bar
Ah, now i understand what's going on... btw., it did extract even more
junk, for example symlinks, to the disk. The following should fix it:
Index: tar/extract.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/cvs/src/gnu/usr.bin/tar/extract.c,v
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -u -u -r1.4 extract.c
--- extract.c 1996/11/03 14:47:51 1.4
+++ extract.c 1997/04/13 07:54:18
@@ -158,7 +158,10 @@
userec (head); /* And go past it in the archive */
decode_header (head, &hstat, &head_standard, 1); /* Snarf fields */
- if (f_confirm && !confirm ("extract", current_file_name))
+ if ((f_confirm && !confirm ("extract", current_file_name)) ||
+ (f_exstdout && head->header.linkflag != LF_OLDNORMAL &&
+ head->header.linkflag != LF_NORMAL &&
+ head->header.linkflag != LF_CONTIG))
{
if (head->header.isextended)
skip_extended_headers ();
p.s.: please avoid putting invalid addresses into your outgoing mail
headers (Cc in this case). That's why sendmail offers you the feature
to rewrite the headers. :-}
--
cheers, J"org
joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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