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Re: [Bug-tar] tar 1.29: Test 30 numeric.at broken with BSD filesystem se


From: Pavel Raiskup
Subject: Re: [Bug-tar] tar 1.29: Test 30 numeric.at broken with BSD filesystem semantics
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2016 07:31:52 +0200
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On Wednesday 01 of June 2016 23:05:52 Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> In GNU tar 1.29, this new regression test
>
>   30: numeric.at:18      --numeric-owner basic tests
>
> is itself broken on filesystems that have BSD group inheritance,
> i.e., where a newly created file gets the group of the directory
> rather than that of the user.
>
> Obviously, this affects (at least) all *BSD operating systems.

Then we should be able to switch the group ownership back to $GID, does
the attached patch help?

Pavel

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