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- From: John_Rouillard@dl5000.bc.edu (John P. Rouillard)
- Subject: Possible bug in gtar 1.11.2
- Message-ID: <199211191856.AA27367@dl5000.bc.edu>
- Sender: gnulists@ai.mit.edu
- Organization: Boston College, Institute for Space Research (Bedford, MA)
- Distribution: gnu
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 18:56:49 GMT
- Approved: bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu
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- Hi:
-
- Using gtar 1.11.1, when I use the following command line:
-
- tar -cvvf /dev/null /
-
- and / contains long file names that have to be mangled, I get the
- following error message:
-
- ./tar: Visible longname error
-
- ?rwxr-xr-x root/system 0 Nov 19 13:33 1992 ././@LongLink unknown file type 'L'
- drwxr-xr-x rouilj/system 0 Nov 19 13:33 1992 usr/tmp/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/
- ./tar: Visible longname error
-
- ?rwxr-xr-x root/system 0 Nov 19 13:33 1992 ././@LongLink unknown file type 'L'
-
- Why is listing an @LongLink file an error? With a single -v option the
- @LongLink files are listed as being on the tape. Why should it be an
- error to request a long listing of these files?
-
- Also, why are the @LongLink files being listed at all. With a "tar
- -tvf", these @LongLink files aren't listed at all. Shouldn't the long
- listing generated during the creation of the file jibe with the
- listing of the file after the fact?
-
- I would very much like to comment out the warning message in list.c at
- line 576, but I am not sure why this would be an error in the first
- place. Is ignoring this "error" a safe thing to do?
-
- This has implications for some patches I am making to gnu tar to
- support saving of verbose listing information to a file so that the
- listing infomation isn't lumped into the error stream when gnu tar
- produces an archive to standard output. This provides a better
- interface between gnu tar and some wrapper scripts that drive the
- backup process.
-
- A quick reply would be appreciated.
-
- -- John
-
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- John Rouillard
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