device nodes extracted incorrectly in 1.5a64

Mike <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.archivers.star.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
It appears that star 1.5a64 does not properly extract device
nodes. The device minor number is in all cases the same as the major
number (see below example).

It is created correctly. A tar archive created with 1.5a64 is
extracted correctly by 1.5a58.


$ uname -a
Linux bu1-p 2.4.20-64GB-SMP #1 SMP Fri Mar 12 15:35:09 UTC 2004 i686
unknown unknown GNU/Linux

bu1-p:/opt/Backup # star -version
star: star 1.5a64 (i686-pc-linux-gnu)


$ ls -l /dev/ac
crw-------    1 root     root      10, 157 Mar 14  2003 /dev/ac


$ star -cvv f=- /dev/ac | star -tv f=-
a  10 157 crw-------   1 root/root Mar 14 08:07 2003 /dev/ac
star: 1 blocks + 0 bytes (total of 10240 bytes = 10.00k).
 10  10 crw-------  root/root Mar 14 08:07 2003 /dev/ac
star: 1 blocks + 0 bytes (total of 10240 bytes = 10.00k).



$ star -cvv f=- /dev/ac | star-1.5a58 -tv f=-
a  10 157 crw-------   1 root/root Mar 14 08:07 2003 /dev/ac
star: 1 blocks + 0 bytes (total of 10240 bytes = 10.00k).
 10 157 crw-------  root/root Mar 14 08:07 2003 /dev/ac
/root/star-1.5_/star/OBJ/i686-linux-cc/star_fat: 1 blocks + 0 bytes
(total of 10240 bytes = 10.00k).


[The same results are observed when extracting the archive rather than
listing its contents.]

$ star -tv f=test.tar

[snip]

 48  48 brw-rw----   1 root/disk Mar 14 08:07 2003 dev/rd/c0d0
 48  48 brw-rw----   1 root/disk Mar 14 08:07 2003 dev/rd/c0d1
 48  48 brw-rw----   1 root/disk Mar 14 08:07 2003 dev/rd/c0d2
 48  48 brw-rw----   1 root/disk Mar 14 08:07 2003 dev/rd/c0d3
 48  48 brw-rw----   1 root/disk Mar 14 08:07 2003 dev/rd/c0d4
 48  48 brw-rw----   1 root/disk Mar 14 08:07 2003 dev/rd/c0d5
 48  48 brw-rw----   1 root/disk Mar 14 08:07 2003 dev/rd/c0d6
 48  48 brw-rw----   1 root/disk Mar 14 08:07 2003 dev/rd/c0d7
 48  48 brw-rw----   1 root/disk Mar 14 08:07 2003 dev/rd/c0d8
 48  48 brw-rw----   1 root/disk Mar 14 08:07 2003 dev/rd/c0d9
 49  49 brw-rw----   1 root/disk Mar 14 08:07 2003 dev/rd/c1d0
 49  49 brw-rw----   1 root/disk Mar 14 08:07 2003 dev/rd/c1d1
 49  49 brw-rw----   1 root/disk Mar 14 08:07 2003 dev/rd/c1d2
 49  49 brw-rw----   1 root/disk Mar 14 08:07 2003 dev/rd/c1d3
 49  49 brw-rw----   1 root/disk Mar 14 08:07 2003 dev/rd/c1d4
 49  49 brw-rw----   1 root/disk Mar 14 08:07 2003 dev/rd/c1d5
 49  49 brw-rw----   1 root/disk Mar 14 08:07 2003 dev/rd/c1d6

[...]



$ star-1.5a58 -tv f=test.tar


[snip]

 48   0 brw-rw----   1 root/disk Mar 14 08:07 2003 dev/rd/c0d0
 48   8 brw-rw----   1 root/disk Mar 14 08:07 2003 dev/rd/c0d1
 48  16 brw-rw----   1 root/disk Mar 14 08:07 2003 dev/rd/c0d2
 48  24 brw-rw----   1 root/disk Mar 14 08:07 2003 dev/rd/c0d3
 48  32 brw-rw----   1 root/disk Mar 14 08:07 2003 dev/rd/c0d4
 48  40 brw-rw----   1 root/disk Mar 14 08:07 2003 dev/rd/c0d5
 48  48 brw-rw----   1 root/disk Mar 14 08:07 2003 dev/rd/c0d6
 48  56 brw-rw----   1 root/disk Mar 14 08:07 2003 dev/rd/c0d7
 48  64 brw-rw----   1 root/disk Mar 14 08:07 2003 dev/rd/c0d8
 48  72 brw-rw----   1 root/disk Mar 14 08:07 2003 dev/rd/c0d9
 49   0 brw-rw----   1 root/disk Mar 14 08:07 2003 dev/rd/c1d0
 49   8 brw-rw----   1 root/disk Mar 14 08:07 2003 dev/rd/c1d1
 49  16 brw-rw----   1 root/disk Mar 14 08:07 2003 dev/rd/c1d2
 49  24 brw-rw----   1 root/disk Mar 14 08:07 2003 dev/rd/c1d3
 49  32 brw-rw----   1 root/disk Mar 14 08:07 2003 dev/rd/c1d4
 49  40 brw-rw----   1 root/disk Mar 14 08:07 2003 dev/rd/c1d5
 49  48 brw-rw----   1 root/disk Mar 14 08:07 2003 dev/rd/c1d6

[...]
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