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| author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2010-11-24 23:07:46 -0800 |
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| committer | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2010-11-24 23:08:07 -0800 |
| commit | 649b747913d2b289e904b5f1d222af886acd209c (patch) | |
| tree | 1fad429b2af14e4e472074d71d086c9085b75cb3 | |
| parent | bb971a1e8a25cf2316d1cf5da309eb77b4975f0f (diff) | |
| download | tar-649b747913d2b289e904b5f1d222af886acd209c.tar.gz | |
tar: work around NetBSD and Tru64 symlink incompatibility with POSIX
Problem reported by Bruno Haible in
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2010-11/msg00306.html>.
* src/extract.c (maybe_recoverable): Also treat EFTYPE (if defined)
and ENOTSUP like ELOOP.
| -rw-r--r-- | src/extract.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/extract.c b/src/extract.c index c52c9ce8..aaea56ed 100644 --- a/src/extract.c +++ b/src/extract.c @@ -609,9 +609,18 @@ maybe_recoverable (char *file_name, bool regular, bool *interdir_made) switch (e) { case ELOOP: + /* With open ("symlink", O_NOFOLLOW|...), POSIX says errno == ELOOP, - but FreeBSD through at least 8.1 uses errno == EMLINK. */ + but some operating systems do not conform to the standard. */ +#ifdef EFTYPE + /* NetBSD uses errno == EFTYPE; see <http://gnats.netbsd.org/43154>. */ + case EFTYPE: +#endif + /* FreeBSD 8.1 uses errno == EMLINK. */ case EMLINK: + /* Tru64 5.1B uses errno == ENOTSUP. */ + case ENOTSUP: + if (! regular || old_files_option != OVERWRITE_OLD_FILES || dereference_option) break; |