Re: Incorrect mtree entries for hard links

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 07:27:06PM +0200, Alan Barrett wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> > during testing I found a difference in behaviour between bsdtar and
> > pax-as-tar. When extracting base.tgz with bsdtar, usr/bin/systat will
> > not be sgid kmem. The reason for this is that usr/bin/sysstat is a hard
> > link that overwrites the permission. I am not sure if the behaviour of
> > bsdtar is entirely correct, but the permissions in the archive don't
> > look right either. Opinions?
> 
> See PR 24457 for a bug report about essentially the same issue, but
> (four years later) I still don't see an easy fix.

Good, so I can handle it as bug and fix it :-)

Joerg