Re: device nodes extracted incorrectly in 1.5a64

Mike <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.archivers.star.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 05:55:42PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Mike <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Try to use this patch:

[...]

That appears to have resolved the issue. Am I correct that this is
only an extract/listing issue (the archive itself is not corrupt)?
Minimal testing seems to confirm this. (I have backups made with
1.5a64 that I need to restore.)
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