Re: [Bug-tar] tar --remove-files bug when doing -r (append) in tar 1.23

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Jeremy Warren <address@hidden> ha escrit:

> Originally posted to cygwin list, now I suspect the problem lies in
> all 1.23 releases of tar.

Thanks for reporting.  Attached is a patch that fixes the bug.

Regards,
Sergey

>From 45a574151ae64ae4f9b0d99302f7da6d9d8451a9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sergey Poznyakoff <address@hidden>
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 15:36:24 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] Fix --remove-files in update/append mode.

* src/update.c (update_archive): Call finish_deferred_unlinks when
done.
---
 src/update.c |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/update.c b/src/update.c
index d00e8d6..73b9d53 100644
--- a/src/update.c
+++ b/src/update.c
@@ -230,5 +230,6 @@ update_archive (void)
 
   write_eot ();
   close_archive ();
+  finish_deferred_unlinks ();
   names_notfound ();
 }
-- 
1.6.0.3