tar -p and usernames vs. uid's

[Rob Landley]

On Saturday 06 May 2006 9:13 am, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> On Friday 05 May 2006 23:08, Rob Landley wrote:
> > On Thursday 04 May 2006 6:56 pm, Natanael Copa wrote:
> > > Could anybody please take a short look at the previously posted update
> > > for the tar uname/gname patch and get it committed?
> > >
> > > http://www.busybox.net/lists/busybox/2006-April/020789.html
> >
> > Sorry, this got blocked because my copy of tar is hacked up with a
> > modified version of Dennis Vlasenko's write coalesce fix, which is A)
> > much simpler, B) doesn't work.  I've been meaning to track down why. 
> > (I'm getting the padding sizes wrong somewhere...)
>
> Just built with write coalesce fix, and tarred up the build tree:
>
> # ./busybox tar cf - . | md5sum
> ca14e9cb6d9bb580b736ee6f04a1ae8a  -
>
> # ../busybox.org/busybox tar cf - . | md5sum
> ca14e9cb6d9bb580b736ee6f04a1ae8a  -
>
> Looks like there is no difference.
>
> Please send me a testcase which fails for you.

No, I mean the fix I applied to my tree is simpler than your fix, but I seem 
to have screwed it up.  (Haven't had time to look at it today, it's attached 
though...)

Rob
-- 
Never bet against the cheap plastic solution.
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