Re: bin/26148: tar(1) issues, inconsistencies with GNU tar

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/26148; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, 
mmondor%gmail.com@localhost
Subject: Re: bin/26148: tar(1) issues, inconsistencies with GNU tar
Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 05:52:12 +0000

 On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 05:30:05AM +0000, Matthew Mondor wrote:
  >>  I dunno, the behavior described sounds like a bug. Does it still occur?
  >  
  >  I just tried the following which appears to show that it actually was
  >  fixed.  The default is still not to follow symbolic links as per the
  >  man page however, and I also tested extracting with -h and the same
  >  proper behavior was observed.  This thus probably was another bug
  >  specifically related to overwriting symbolic links with directories
  >  which was fixed since.
 
 Yeah, that sounds about right. Thanks for checking :-)
 
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 David A. Holland
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