Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!woods
From: woods@tmsoft.uucp (Greg Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs
Subject: PAX problems with linked files
Summary: linked files in an archive are not correctly listed (+ my wish-list)
Keywords: pax tar cpio archive tape
Message-ID: <1989Mar17.174014.15444@tmsoft.uucp>
Date: 17 Mar 89 17:40:14 GMT
Reply-To: woods@tmsoft.UUCP (Greg Woods)
Followup-To: comp.sources.bugs
Organization: G.A.W. Consulting
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When doing a listing of an archive, linked files are shown as all
linked to the first file that has a link count of more than one.
Howerver the archive seems to be OK, as when old-tar is used to to a
listing, or extraction, it gets everthing right.  I've not been able
to identify the cause of this problem yet.

I would also like to see extraction always create under the current
directory, regardless of whether there is a leading slash on the
filename stored in the archive.  It thought this is what the
documentation ment by "relative to the current directory".  I will
probably make this modification myself anyway.

Also on my wish list is some way of making cartridge tapes stream,
perhaps forking a child off to do the write, and then reading another
buffer, before waiting on the child.  This would hopefully make disk
reads and tape writes asynchronus.  It isn't obvious to me how this
might be done with the current buffer scheme.

My compliments to the peace-maker of the archivers!  I now use it to
do all backups an offline storage on my client's NCR Tower 32/600.
-- 
						Greg Woods.

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