-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Stefan Vorkoetter on 3/31/2006 9:33 AM: > > Another question then: Why can I successfully use tar to read files from > the samba file system, and record them into a tar archive on the local > file system? Is it simply that tar doesn't bother checking whether the > inode changed?
Yes, the syscall sequences in cp are different than those in tar, as to whether the utility cares whether the inode is changing in the middle of the copy. Personally, I think coreutils' behavior is more correct in the face of accurate inodes, because it detects if some other process is modifying the filesystem in parallel with you; but as you found out can be annoying when dealing with a filesystem that does not have accurate inodes when no other external modifications are happening. It comes to a choice of which battle do you want to fight. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFELtaG84KuGfSFAYARAsGvAJ46n24KlMrT7HrHk5WhPFX4nha1fACfcBDg GSQxtfh68X4tRrAn+EjGZ0A= =R7f5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
