tar 1.13

[Paul Gardner-Stephen]

Hello,

I have encountered a problem with gnu tar 1.13 tarring files which have a time 
stamp of 0 seconds since epoch.

It only occurs in certain circumstances, but is quite reproducible.  I have 
included output from tar 1.11.8 which handles the situation correctly, and the 
erroneous output from 1.13 where it refuses to add the file to the archive.

Thanks,
Paul.

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~ {9:24} [201] :/opt/local/links/bin/tar --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.13

Copyright (C) 1988, 92,93,94,95,96,97,98, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason.
~ {9:24} [202] :echo 
/opt/apps/pkgs/oracle/ora01/app/oracle/Apache/Jserv/etc/jserv.properties | 
/opt/local/links/bin/tar -PT - -cvf /dev/null 
/opt/local/links/bin/tar: 
/opt/apps/pkgs/oracle/ora01/app/oracle/Apache/Jserv/etc/jserv.properties: is 
unchanged; not dumped
~ {9:24} [203] :/home/paul/bin/SunOS/tar --version
GNU tar 1.11.8
~ {9:25} [204] :echo 
/opt/apps/pkgs/oracle/ora01/app/oracle/Apache/Jserv/etc/jserv.properties | 
/home/paul/bin/SunOS/tar -PT - -cvf /dev/null 
/opt/apps/pkgs/oracle/ora01/app/oracle/Apache/Jserv/etc/jserv.properties
~ {9:25} [205] :ls -la 
/opt/apps/pkgs/oracle/ora01/app/oracle/Apache/Jserv/etc/jserv.properties
-rwxr-xr-x   1 oracle8  sysadmin   13861 Jan  1  1970 
/opt/apps/pkgs/oracle/ora01/app/oracle/Apache/Jserv/etc/jserv.properties*
~ {9:25} [206] :uname -a
SunOS atlas 5.7 Generic_106541-16 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-4
~ {9:32} [207] :