[Bug-tar] unmodified files included in incremental tar if link count was changed

Dear tar-experts I observed lots of files that where included in incremental tar files without beeing modified. And it seems that the reason is a modfied hardlink count of these files. Here's a testcase: mkdir x touch x/f1 touch x/f2 tar cgf x.toc x1.tar x ln -s x/f1 x.f1 ln x/f2 x.f2 tar cgf x.

Re: [Bug-tar] unmodified files included in incremental tar if link count was changed

"bug-...@naev.de" wrote: > Dear tar-experts > > I observed lots of files that where included in incremental > tar files without beeing modified. And it seems that the > reason is a modfied hardlink count of these files. Not only gtar, but also star adds files in case that the "ctime" of those fi