cvs commit: src/usr.bin/tar write.c

[Kris Kennaway]

On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 09:34:05PM -0700, Colin Percival wrote:
> Rong-en Fan wrote:
> > On 3/15/07, Colin Percival <cperciva at freebsd.org> wrote:
> >>   Modified files:
> >>     usr.bin/tar          write.c
> >>   Log:
> >>   Don't consider an lstat(2) failure to be an error (in the sense of
> >>   affecting the return value from bsdtar) [...]
> > 
> > This commit makes 'make package' successfully even if the plist is
> > wrong, i.e. it contains ``ghost'' files. Basically,
> > 
> > $ tar zcvf a.tgz /aaa
> > tar: /aaa: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
> > 
> > It returns 0, so make package will be considered successful.
> 
> I've fixed this in revision 1.62.
> 
> Colin Percival

Thanks, I think mi@ ran into this recently too.

Kris

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