Re: [Bug-tar] Incorrect "Creating directory:" lines for tar -xvvf

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

> tar -xvvf truncates directory names in its output of lines:
> drwxr-xr-x                  Creating directory: <dir>
> 
> whenever <dir> has quote marks or backslash escapes added.

Thanks for reporting.  A patch is attached.

Regards,
Sergey

>From 79138eaef1094eae50d4dfc84bb5007de06d6376 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sergey Poznyakoff <address@hidden>
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:27:52 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fix the "Creating directory:" output

* src/list.c (print_for_mkdir): don't use unquoted name length for
computing its output width.
---
 src/list.c |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/list.c b/src/list.c
index cf2de09..7e1319c 100644
--- a/src/list.c
+++ b/src/list.c
@@ -1357,8 +1357,8 @@ print_for_mkdir (char *dirname, int length, mode_t mode)
                   STRINGIFY_BIGINT (current_block_ordinal (), buf));
        }

-      fprintf (stdlis, "%s %*s %.*s\n", modes, ugswidth + 1 + datewidth,
-              _("Creating directory:"), length, quotearg (dirname));
+      fprintf (stdlis, "%s %*s %s\n", modes, ugswidth + 1 + datewidth,
+              _("Creating directory:"), quotearg (dirname));
     }
 }

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