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Re: busybox tar doesn't handle device files properly



On Thu Nov 11, 1999 at 10:09:19AM -0700, Matt Porter wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 11, 1999 at 09:58:49AM -0700, Erik Andersen wrote:
> > On Wed Nov 10, 1999 at 11:09:52PM -0700, Matt Porter wrote:
> > > The new busybox tar seems to be dumping device files as regular zero length
> > > files.  This causes some difficulty when trying to open /dev/console on
> > > reboot of a freshly installed base system. :)
> > > 
> > > Erik, can you take a look at this?
> > > 
> > 
> > Oops, I thought I'd fixed that.  Hmm.  Expect a fix real soon.
> 
> I just checked in some working changes so it extracts them properly.
> 

You beat me to it!  Cool, thx.

I've added support for untaring sockets and FIFOs, (needed for stuff
like /dev/xconsole and /dev/log ), and switched to using the makedev()
macro since we don't really know what a dev_t is unless we peek under
the kernel's skirt. This also fixes up the TRUE/FALSE problem in tar.
Anyway, I'll be checking in my fixes in just a sec. Let me know if you
see any problems.

 -Erik

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