retitle 426808 tar: using -W circumvents sanity checks and provokes data loss thankyou
Hi, it gets even worse... ] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp>touch X ] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp>tar czf XT X ] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp>file XT ] XT: gzip compressed data, from Unix, last modified: Sat Jul 7 18:36:01 2007 ] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp>tar rf XT X ] tar: Cannot update compressed archives ] tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now ] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp>tar rWf XT X ] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp>file XT ] XT: POSIX tar archive (GNU) ] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp> I'll try to come up with a patch, but it might take a few days until I find the time for it. Regards, Jan
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