[Bug-tar] Bogus 'file changed as we read it'

[Gerd Knops]

Hi,

tar 1.13 used to compare mtime and size of files to determine if they 
changed during creation of an archive. Sometime later this was modified 
to check for ctime changes. I think this is not a good idea. It is 
perfectly OK to make a hardlink while tar executes, but that changes 
the ctime and hence triggers the 'file changed as we read it' error 
message.

This is in create.c, subroutine

void
dump_regular_finish (int fd, struct tar_stat_info *st, time_t 
original_ctime)

I think the old behavior should be restored.

Gerd