Re: Race condition in creating directories

[Simon Lees]

Hi All,

Apologies if this is a completely broken email i'm not subscribed and am trying to reply from the archive.

> Thanks for the bug report. How about the attached patch instead? It's a bit more conservative than what you proposed. (I haven't tested it.)

We tested the 0001-Retry-file-creation-more-aggressively.patch for a customer and found it was possible to cause tar to hang indefinitely while extracting one of the test files from the go test suite. The initial patch from this thread didn't have the same issue. Reproducer below.

wget https://go.dev/src/archive/tar/testdata/pax-global-records.tar

tar --force-local --no-unquote -xf ax-global-records.tar

Thanks

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