Re: [Bug-tar] Ongoing TAR Verify Option Problems

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

John L. Males <address@hidden> wrote:

>  1) Files that have not changed are listed as changed in verify phase,
> example messages below.
>  2) The get a variety of messages that franky do not make much sense
> as being valid issues, examples listed below.
>  3) "Total bytes written: 160358400 (153MiB, 423KiB/s)" incorrectly
> calculated when tar file is verified.  Current calculation of /s is
> half of actual written speed.
[...]
>  4) During the verify, the tar program will go into an infinite loop
> and never complete the verify.

All issues are fixed.

> Helpful changes:
> 
>  1) Informational message that verify has started.
>  2) The "Total bytes written: " message written out at end of tar file
> written and closed, so it is indicated before verify starts.
>  3) A "Total bytes compared: " message for end of verify.
>  4) A message that indicates if "Total bytes written: " and "Total
> bytes compared: " are different.

Good idea. I'll implement these later.

Thank you for reporting the bugs.

Regards,
Sergey