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

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Dat Head <address@hidden> wrote:

> i'm a little confused by the reply, on one hand it
> sounds like you are saying that is the way it is,
> but on next, you say that is a bug?

Possibly I didn't explain myself very well. It is normal that
tar delays restoration of the directory privileges until the end
of extraction.  But the bug is that it does not restore the privileges
upon receiving a SIGINTR. 
 
> note that it seemed to do it (possibly exclusively) on
> symlinks that were at the time dangling.

That part surprises me. Could you give some example, please?

Regards,
Sergey