Re: [Bug-tar] Incremental restore bug in tar 1.15.1

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi David,

> During incremental restore, before removing entities that have gone
> away, tar performs a 'stat' call.  However, this stat call is
> dereferencing.  If the previously existing entity is a symlink that
> does not resolve correctly, this causes tar to print a warning, and
> not remove the entity.

That sounds like a problem recently reported.

    http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2005-08/msg00023.html

Cheers,


Ralph.