Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 08:30:31 -0700 From: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org> To: Ulrich Spoerlein <uspoerlein@gmail.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bsdtar and packages vs. unionfs Message-ID: <461A5C17.5080906@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20070409105220.GA1347@roadrunner.q.local> References: <20070407174756.GA46385@roadrunner.q.local> <4617F67B.7050304@freebsd.org> <20070408075917.GA40103@roadrunner.q.local> <46194018.8030102@freebsd.org> <20070409105220.GA1347@roadrunner.q.local>
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Ulrich Spoerlein wrote:
> Tim Kientzle wrote:
>
> The way I see it, bsdtar(1) extracts the symlink libcharset.so, and then
> tries to stat(2) instead of lstat(2) it, before libcharset.so.1 is
> extracted. The questions is: why?
Oh. I see. *That* old bug. <sigh> Try this patch:
Index: archive_read_extract.c
===================================================================
--- archive_read_extract.c (revision 177)
+++ archive_read_extract.c (working copy)
@@ -1243,7 +1243,7 @@
/* Already have stat() data available. */
} else if (fd >= 0 && fstat(fd, &extract->st) == 0)
extract->pst = &extract->st;
- else if (stat(name, &extract->st) == 0)
+ else if (lstat(name, &extract->st) == 0)
extract->pst = &extract->st;
else {
archive_set_error(a, errno,
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