The following reply was made to PR bin/36275; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Christos Zoulas <christos@netbsd.org>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: PR/36275 CVS commit: src/bin/pax
Date: Fri,  4 May 2007 21:19:37 +0000 (UTC)

 Module Name:	src
 Committed By:	christos
 Date:		Fri May  4 21:19:37 UTC 2007
 
 Modified Files:
 	src/bin/pax: ar_subs.c extern.h pat_rep.c pat_rep.h tar.1
 
 Log Message:
 PR/36275: john at iastate dot edu: tar -s modifies symlink targets
 - This is explained in a comment in pat_rep.c inside mod_name(). I did not
   want to change the default behavior, so I added another modifier "s" which
   when set, the pattern will not modify the symlink destination.
 - While here I fixed another bug that was introduced before by the fix in
   PR/35257 where the renaming was happening twice since we called rep_name
   twice.
 - Finally if we are renaming hard of soft-link targets print the renames for
   those too.
 
 
 To generate a diff of this commit:
 cvs rdiff -r1.53 -r1.54 src/bin/pax/ar_subs.c
 cvs rdiff -r1.52 -r1.53 src/bin/pax/extern.h
 cvs rdiff -r1.26 -r1.27 src/bin/pax/pat_rep.c
 cvs rdiff -r1.5 -r1.6 src/bin/pax/pat_rep.h
 cvs rdiff -r1.24 -r1.25 src/bin/pax/tar.1
 
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 copyright notices on the relevant files.