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Re: [Bug-tar] tar (GNU tar) 1.29 bug in --no-recursion
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Pavel Raiskup |
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Re: [Bug-tar] tar (GNU tar) 1.29 bug in --no-recursion |
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Fri, 31 Mar 2017 16:31:15 +0200 |
Hi, thanks for the report.
On Friday, March 31, 2017 1:41:20 PM CEST N wrote:
> I'v recently updated my tar to 1.29.
> I use flexbackup and got a regression.
> The cause was ignoring --no-recursion parameter.
> So, I would like to report a bug.
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> I found, that tar behavior depends on parameter position.
> [...]
> It seems that bug is reproduced only if --no-recursion is applied after
> filenames.
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> Could you please confirm this bug?
That's expected behavior, the --(no-)recursion is possition sensitive option,
https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node/Position_002dSensitive-Options.html
Pavel