From owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 23 22:30:02 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA092106566C for ; Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:30:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E9E98FC19 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:30:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (gnats@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m5NMU2E7090768 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:30:02 GMT (envelope-from gnats@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.2/8.14.1/Submit) id m5NMU2u9090764; Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:30:02 GMT (envelope-from gnats) Resent-Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:30:02 GMT Resent-Message-Id: <200806232230.m5NMU2u9090764@freefall.freebsd.org> Resent-From: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org (GNATS Filer) Resent-To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Resent-Reply-To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, Peter Schuller Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12DBE106567A for ; Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:23:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nobody@FreeBSD.org) Received: from www.freebsd.org (www.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::21]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED7808FC20 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:23:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nobody@FreeBSD.org) Received: from www.freebsd.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by www.freebsd.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m5NMNWq7016006 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:23:33 GMT (envelope-from nobody@www.freebsd.org) Received: (from nobody@localhost) by www.freebsd.org (8.14.2/8.14.1/Submit) id m5NMNWeX016005; Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:23:32 GMT (envelope-from nobody) Message-Id: <200806232223.m5NMNWeX016005@www.freebsd.org> Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:23:32 GMT From: Peter Schuller To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org X-Send-Pr-Version: www-3.1 Cc: Subject: bin/124915: bsdtar creates files with bogus access times X-BeenThere: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:30:02 -0000 >Number: 124915 >Category: bin >Synopsis: bsdtar creates files with bogus access times >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Mon Jun 23 22:30:02 UTC 2008 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Peter Schuller >Release: 7.0-RELEASE-p1 >Organization: >Environment: FreeBSD host 7.0-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p1 #2: Sat Apr 19 19:15:39 CEST 2008 user@host:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 >Description: When extracting files, bsdtar creates files with a bogus access time of 0 seconds since the epoch. Other than being generally unexpected (to me), it has the practical implication that on a system running tmpwatch/tmpreaper, things untarred by bsdtar don't survive for long. Unless the archive preserves access time and bsdtar is asked to preserve it (I don't believe this is supported however?), I would expect the access time to remain untouched, or at least set to >= creation time. >How-To-Repeat: % ls -l total 0 % touch testfile % stat -x testfile File: "testfile" Size: 0 FileType: Regular File Mode: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: ( 1001/ scode) Gid: ( 0/ wheel) Device: 98,4164878385 Inode: 1424746 Links: 1 Access: Tue Jun 24 00:20:59 2008 Modify: Tue Jun 24 00:20:59 2008 Change: Tue Jun 24 00:20:59 2008 % tar -cf testfile.tar testfile % tar -xf testfile.tar % stat -x testfile File: "testfile" Size: 0 FileType: Regular File Mode: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: ( 1001/ scode) Gid: ( 0/ wheel) Device: 98,4164878385 Inode: 1424748 Links: 1 Access: Thu Jan 1 01:00:00 1970 Modify: Tue Jun 24 00:20:59 2008 Change: Tue Jun 24 00:21:18 2008 >Fix: No patch. Determined that bsdtar uses archive_read_extract() for extraction, but did not dig into the archive library. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: