Re: [Bug-tar] incorrect reporting of harlink mismatch

[Cezary Sliwa]

On Wed, November 8, 2017 18:14, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Cezary Sliwa <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> ==================
>>
>> I get
>>
>> a/y: Not linked to a/y
   ^^^

>>
>> which is evidently incorrect.
>
> This is correct.

I am not sure whether you mean that the printed message is correct or my
claim that it is not.

>
> With star -diff -v you get:
>
> star: Blocksize = 16 records.
> diffopts=perm,type,nlink,uid,gid,uname,gname,size,data,rdev,hardlink,symlink,sympath,sparse,mtime,ctime,dir,acl,xattr,fflags
> Release     star 1.5.3 (i386-pc-solaris2.11)
> Archtype    exustar
> Dumpdate    1510160623.989320928 (Wed Nov  8 18:03:43 2017)
> Volno       1
> Blocksize   20 records
> a/: different mtime,ctime
>       0 drwxr-xr-x   2 joerg/bs  Nov  8 17:59 2017 a/
>       0 drwxr-xr-x   2 joerg/bs  Nov  8 18:11 2017 a/
> a/y: different nlink,ctime
>       0 lrwxrwxrwx   2 joerg/bs  Nov  8 17:59 2017 a/y -> x
>       0 lrwxrwxrwx   1 joerg/bs  Nov  8 17:59 2017 a/y -> x
> a/z: not linked to a/y
  ^^^

This line is different than printed out by gnu tar.

C.S.


> a/z: different nlink,hardlink,ctime
>       0 lrwxrwxrwx   2 joerg/bs  Nov  8 17:59 2017 a/z link to a/y
>       0 lrwxrwxrwx   1 joerg/bs  Nov  8 18:11 2017 a/z -> x
> star: 1 blocks + 0 bytes (total of 8192 bytes = 8.00k).
>
> Jörg
>
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