Add symbolic link to tar file

I have written a small script for adding a symbolic link to a tar file. Let's say that you would normally create a symbolic link in your file system as follows: ln -s /usr/lib/libdog.so /usr/lib/libcat.so Well in order to do this within a tar file, you would invoke my script with 4 arguments

Re: Add symbolic link to tar file

Hi Frederick, > I have written a small script for adding a symbolic link to a tar file. I suppose you mean a symbolic link not existing on a file system, right? > Internally my script does the following: > * Create a symbolic link in "/tmp" and have it point to "/usr/lib/libdog.so" > * Use "tar

Re: [GNU tar 1.32] testsuite: 91 210 failed

Hi Lloyd, Thanks for your report. The test 91 fails because the shell command 'ulimit -n 10' fails: ./testsuite[2100]: ulimit: The specified value exceeds the user's allowable limit. Prior to this, a call to 'ulimit -n 4' is done *in a subshell*. It appears that on your system the call to u