Re: [Bug-tar] interix timestamp issues (was: listed-incremental broken in 1.25 on Solaris 10)

2011-05-11 Thread Markus Duft
On 05/12/11 05:41, Paul Eggert wrote: > On 05/11/11 01:49, Markus Duft wrote: >> fsync(fd) before setting the timestamp helps, and i have a 1.26 patch >> (attached), >> for now limited to interix only, although i saw it on linux too. > > Can you describe the GNU/Linux scenario? That would be a s

Re: [Bug-tar] listed-incremental broken in 1.25 on Solaris 10

2011-05-11 Thread Paul Eggert
On 05/11/11 01:49, Markus Duft wrote: > fsync(fd) before setting the timestamp helps, and i have a 1.26 patch > (attached), > for now limited to interix only, although i saw it on linux too. Can you describe the GNU/Linux scenario? That would be a serious file system bug. There are known bugs w

Re: [Bug-tar] listed-incremental broken in 1.25 on Solaris 10

2011-05-11 Thread Markus Duft
On 02/02/11 20:28, Paul Eggert wrote: > On 02/01/11 23:28, Markus Duft wrote: >> i don't think it's "only" a bug in the filesystem Hey! i know it has been a while, but i came back to the problem today... > > Yes, most likely it isn't "just" a bug in the file system. > tar has changed the way th