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

[David Brown]

On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 19:58 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> 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

Yes.  That looks like the same problem.  A build of tar 1.15.1 patched
with the fix I sent before passes the script in the report.

David