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* [9fans] corrections for tarfs(4) and tpfs(4)
@ 2003-12-12 20:13 Richard Miller
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From: Richard Miller @ 2003-12-12 20:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
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This went to 9trouble last month, but submissions to 9fans seem to
get a quicker response ...

I stumbled over this one by doing a 'cp -x'  from a tar file which had some
unexpected mode bits set (by cygwin tar).

*** /n/sources/plan9//sys/src/cmd/tapefs/tarfs.c	Sun Jul 14 19:49:24 2002
--- /sys/src/cmd/tapefs/tarfs.c	Tue Nov 18 15:20:15 2003
***************
*** 58,63 ****
--- 58,64 ----
  		/* the mode test is ugly but sometimes necessary */
  		if (dblock.dbuf.linkflag == '5' || (f.mode&0170000) == 040000)
  			f.mode |= DMDIR;
+ 		f.mode &= DMDIR|0777;
  		linkflg = dblock.dbuf.linkflag=='s' || dblock.dbuf.linkflag=='1';
  		isabs = dblock.dbuf.name[0]=='/';
  		if (chksum != checksum()){

And, for the tape historians, a tiny improvement to the reconstruction of
TP archives.  Note the 1-byte uid and gid ("why would a Unix system ever
need more than 256 userids?").

*** /n/sources/plan9//sys/src/cmd/tapefs/tpfs.c	Thu Mar 16 21:43:28 2000
--- /sys/src/cmd/tapefs/tpfs.c	Mon Jun  4 11:35:35 2001
***************
*** 57,62 ****
--- 57,64 ----
  		f.mdate = (tpp->tmod[2]<<0) + (tpp->tmod[3]<<8)
  		     +(tpp->tmod[0]<<16) + (tpp->tmod[1]<<24);
  		f.mode = tpp->mode[0]&0777;
+ 		f.uid = tpp->uid[0];
+ 		f.gid = tpp->gid[0];
  		isabs = tpp->name[0]=='/';
  		f.name = (char *)tpp->name+isabs;
  		poppath(f, 1);

-- Richard Miller



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