Re: [Bug-tar] gtar 1.15.92 delayed chown/chmod

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Dat Head <address@hidden> wrote:

> why does gtar delay chown/chmod until end for some files

Tar delays restoration of privileges for directories, because resetting
them at once might interfere with further extracting files into them
(e.g. if a directory is read only).  For the rest of files the
privileges and ownership are restored right after extraction.

> i then want to ctrl-c the gtar -x restore after i know it has gone past all
> of the data i want but then it leaves files as mode 000/root.root

That's certainly a bug.  Thanks for reporting.

Regards,
Sergey