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

[Mikhail T.]

Kris Kennaway wrote:
> 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.
>   
So, this is fixed now? I guess, the fears, that fixing it would require 
fixing multitude of ports, were somewhat ungrounded.

    -mi