Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 23:11:43 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" <crist.clark@attbi.com> To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tar not following links now? Message-ID: <20020809061143.GB79890@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <1028872126.3108.5.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> References: <1028857372.1886.9.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> <20020809053552.GA79890@blossom.cjclark.org> <1028872126.3108.5.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au>
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On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 03:18:45PM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Fri, 2002-08-09 at 15:05, Crist J. Clark wrote: > > The "new" behavior is the correct behavior. I'm not sure when or why > > things were broken in your 4.6-PRERELEASE example. The option you want > > is the '-h' option. > > But that dereferences _all_ symlinks, not just ones on the command line. > > I guess I really want -H (like du has). > > I don't understand why it changed though. Hmm. I misunderstood. In 4.6-RELEASE, $ mkdir bbbb $ ln -s bbbb aaaa $ tar cf - aaaa | tar tvf - lrwxr-xr-x cjc/wheel 0 Aug 8 23:04 2002 aaaa -> bbbb $ tar cf - aaaa/ | tar tvf - drwxr-xr-x cjc/wheel 0 Aug 8 23:04 2002 aaaa/ And in 4.6-STABLE, $ tar cf - aaaa | tar tvf - lrwxr-xr-x cjc/cjc 0 Aug 8 23:08 2002 aaaa -> bbbb $ tar cf - aaaa/ | tar tvf - lrwxr-xr-x cjc/cjc 0 Aug 8 23:08 2002 aaaa -> bbbb This behavior I'm not to sure about. I think that may be a bug. Why wouldn't tar(1) work like other tools? $ ls -ld aaaa lrwxr-xr-x 1 cjc cjc 4 Aug 8 23:08 aaaa -> bbbb $ ls -ld aaaa/ drwxr-xr-x 2 cjc cjc 512 Aug 8 23:08 aaaa/ -- Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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