# Test suite for GNU tar. -*- Autotest -*- # Copyright 2020-2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc. # # This file is part of GNU tar. # # GNU tar is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # GNU tar is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program. If not, see . AT_SETUP([--no-overwrite-dir on empty directory]) AT_KEYWORDS([extract extrac23 no-overwrite-dir]) # Description: Implementation of the --no-overwrite-dir option was flawed in # tar versions up to 1.32.90. This option is intended to preserve metadata # of existing directories. In fact it worked only for non-empty directories. # # Reported by: Michael Kaufmann # References: <20200207112934.Horde.anXzYhAj2CHiwUrw5CuT0G-@webmail.michael-kaufmann.ch>, # https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2020-02/msg00003.html AT_TAR_CHECK([ # Test if the directory permissions are restored properly. mkdir dir chmod 755 dir tar cf a.tar dir chmod 777 dir tar -xf a.tar --no-overwrite-dir genfile --stat=mode.777 dir find dir ], [0], [777 dir ]) AT_CLEANUP