After upgrading to the latest SVN version last friday (04/22)
I noticed tar no longer works with gzip and links.
Here is how to reproduce:
# echo a > a
# ln a b
# /bin/tar cf test.tar a b
# ./busybox tar tf test.tar
a
b
# gzip test.tar
# ./busybox tar tzf test.tar.gz
a
tar: Invalid tar magic
# /bin/tar tzf test.tar.gz
a
b
Symbolic links instead of hard links produce the same result
My busybox is build with gunzip but not gzip.
I observed this behaviour first on my uClibc linux system and
reproduced
it on my glibc Debian development machine.
Finally, I noticed that if 'a' if empty ('touch a' instead of
'echo a>a'),
the tar applet works OK.
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Stephane
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