Re: port-evbmips/48564: 'tar' on evbmips-mips64el (LOONGSON) corrupts files extracted to NFS

["John D. Baker" <jdbaker%mylinuxisp.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR port-evbmips/48564; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "John D. Baker" <jdbaker%mylinuxisp.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: port-evbmips/48564: 'tar' on evbmips-mips64el (LOONGSON) corrupts
 files extracted to NFS
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2016 18:17:12 -0500 (CDT)

 Following an update built from sources of approximately 201609081500Z,
 the problems described in this PR appear to have been fixed.  The simple
 test:
 
   $ cd /etc
   $ tar cf - services | tar xf - -C /path/to/NFS
   $ cat services > /path/to/NFS/services-cat
 
 produced target files that compared as identical with the source file.
 
 
 Further, running 'etcupdate' with the default TMPDIR of "/tmp" being
 on an NFS filesystem operated properly (previously, would suggest
 preposterous modifications to files that were actually unchanged--the
 modifications would have replaced valid data with blocks of 00 bytes).
 
 
 Will test a gcc54-built system soon.
 
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