I don't know the paxutils mailing list address, so I'll send here because tar is a paxutils user. I'll report the issue here, if it's a problem, kindly point me to the right address.
In paxutils, commit cd720d0fdcbd changed rmtcreat() to use rmtopen()
instead of creat(), but doesn't pass the O_TRUNC flag.
This means that tar would not truncate an existing archive, if the
file already exists:
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=test.tar bs=100k count=1
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
102400 bytes (102 kB, 100 KiB) copied, 0.000390167 s, 262 MB/s
$ ll README test.tar
-rw-r--r--. 1 matteo matteo 9.6K Oct 31 00:18 README
-rw-r--r--. 1 matteo matteo 100K Nov 4 01:33 test.tar
$ src/tar -c -f test.tar README
$ ll test.tar
-rw-r--r--. 1 matteo matteo 100K Nov 4 01:33 test.tar
$ file test.tar
test.tar: POSIX tar archive (GNU)
$ tar vtf test.tar
-rw-r--r-- matteo/matteo 9756 2024-10-31 00:18 README
Pass the flag fixes it:
$ ll test.tar
-rw-r--r--. 1 matteo matteo 100K Nov 4 01:33 test.tar
$ src/tar -c -f test.tar README
$ ll test.tar
-rw-r--r--. 1 matteo matteo 20K Nov 4 01:40 test.tar
Regards,
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Matteo Croce
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