[BUG+PATCH] Tar sets time on the wrong file when unpacking

[Alex Landau]

--- Denis Vlasenko <vda.linux at googlemail.com> wrote:

> On Tuesday 19 June 2007 14:37, Alex Landau wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I noticed a small bug in tar, i.e. a behavior differing from my expectations and from
> GNU
> > tar.
> > When you unpack a tar file containing a symlink, tar runs utime on it to update its
> time.
> > This changes the time on the file the link is pointing to.
> > Unfortunately POSIX does not define (and Linux does not have) a syscall like lutime
> (ala
> > lchown) that can handle that.
> > GNU tar handles this by not changing the time on symlinks, which results in extracted
> > symlinks having always the time of extraction. rsync has the same problem, by the
> way.
> > 
> > The patch below does NOT set the time on an extracted symlink.
> 
> Applied, thanks!
> --
> vda
> 

Tested. It works.
Thanks,
Alex


 
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