Re: [Bug-tar] Check nano seconds (nsec) to accurate; extract of sym-links fails

[Paul Eggert]

"Raphael Bossek" <address@hidden> writes:

> I invested some time to identify the problem because I thouhght is a problem 
> of me. Now here is my patch to fix TAR:
>
> --- lib/timespec.h.orig 2006-07-19 16:01:51.000000000 +0200
> +++ lib/timespec.h      2006-07-20 08:22:57.000000000 +0200
> @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
>  {
>    return (a.tv_sec < b.tv_sec ? -1
>           : a.tv_sec > b.tv_sec ? 1
> -         : a.tv_nsec - b.tv_nsec);
> +         : 0);
>  }
>
>  # if ! HAVE_DECL_NANOSLEEP

That sounds too strong.  Sometimes 'tar' should ignore the
nanoseconds, and sometimes not.  That is why CVS tar has both a
timespec_cmp function and a tar_timespec_cmp function, for example.

In order to debug your problem we'll need more information.
Is there a simple way to reproduce it?