[indiana-discuss] [osol-discuss] why gnu chmod in os2008.11?

[Enrico Maria Crisostomo]

Joerg, you're right, I think I copied from an old post of mine without
double checking, sorry for it. By the way, I was just saying that I
remember I was hit by that issue little more than a years ago: I began
to correlate things when you cited larger sparse files and
multivolumes.

By the way, thanks to point out my obvious mistake.

On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 6:27 PM, Joerg Schilling
<Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
> Enrico Maria Crisostomo <enrico.m.crisostomo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> For as rare as such an event could be, I was affected by this: more
>> than once GNU tar couldn't extract it's own files while fortunately
>> pax could. I had to back up some big directories with GNU tar on
>> Solaris 10 and sometimes it happened that tar exited with exit status
>> 0 doing nothing. Archives were created with the E flag. This was truss
>
> While GNU tar really sometimes is unable to extract it's own archives, your
> problem has a different reason:
>
> You tried to unpack an archives creates by Sun tar that includes Sun specific
> extensions to the standard.
>
> Star is able to unpack this archive, GNU tar is not.
>
> Jörg
>
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