Re: Unpreserved modification time using `-g snapshot-file'

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello,

On Mon, May 05, 2003 at 06:37:40PM +0200, Wolfgang Molzer wrote:
> If i use the script without the -g, the modification time stamps of the
> extract are what i expect them.  With -g (after removal of gtar.test2
> certainly) the subdirectory dir/subdir has the current timestamp.
> (Funnyly without files in the directory this changes, but i did not
> follow the details too deep).

the last sentence seems to indicate that the directory is created
with the right timestamp, but subsequent file creations set the
modification date of the directory to the current date.

Just a short comment, I'm not going to dive into the source, sorry.

You can hope that the answer from the GNU tar maintainer will come
shortly and help you more.

Good luck,
        Stepan Kasal