Hi Paul! > Thanks for reporting that. That's most likely due to an > incompatibility between NetBSD and POSIX; see > <http://gnats.netbsd.org/43154>. To test my > theory, please try the following two patches, > which work around that incompatibility: > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2010-11/msg00094.html > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2010-11/msg00100.html > > If they fix the problem, the bug should be resolved in the > next release of GNU tar.
Indeed, these patches work, thank you. Test 39 in particular succeeds and the statistics now are: 96 tests were successful. 22 tests were skipped. Thanks, Thomas
