[rtems commit] untar: Make behavior similar to GNU or BSD tar

[Chris Johns]

On 9/12/21 6:47 pm, Christian MAUDERER wrote:
> Hello Chris,
> 
> sorry that I haven't been clear enough.
> 
> 1. The ticket #4552 that I created before sending the patch to the list and that
> was closed by the patch was for 5.
> 
> 2. I asked as an answer to Joels review and I understood him that he is OK with
> that change:
> 
>   https://lists.rtems.org/pipermail/devel/2021-December/070092.html
> 
> and
> 
>   https://lists.rtems.org/pipermail/devel/2021-December/070093.html

Again sorry I missed this when I brushed over the emails.

> 
> Do you want me to revert that patch on 5?
> 

It does change the expected functionality and we should be careful about doing
that. It is not clear if someone has relied on it working this way as a cheap
way to detect an overwrite. I am fine on RTEMS 6 because of the upgrade and a
ticket in the release notes covering the change however if it breaks in a dot
release then that is a different issue.

Given it is in maybe we let it sit and it there is feedback we come back and
take another look?

Chris