Re: [Bug-tar] Symbolic Link Error

[Paul Eggert]

On 11/11/2010 02:58 AM, Krohn, Steffen (ADITG/CMG) wrote:
> tar: ./usr/lib/ipkg: Read error at byte 0, reading 4 bytes: Is a
> directory
> 
> ipkg is a symbolic link to a directory which is created shortly before
> the tar execution.
> Tar version is 1.15.1
> Before we dig deeper we would like to clarify if this could be generated
> by tar or if the message is just misleading.

It does indeed look like it was generated by tar.

It sounds like a race condition, either in your file system
or in tar itself.  If it's in tar, please try tar 1.25 instead
of 1.15.1, as tar 1.25 has fixed several race conditions in that area.
You can get it from <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/tar-1.25.tar.gz>.