(sys_child_open_for_uncompress): Minor stylistic fix.

[chaz/tar] / tests / incremen.sh

diff --git a/tests/incremen.sh b/tests/incremen.sh
index c723e9c9b66b2c2fc26cb64122373296865f28d6..fea59c83dc7e11b9b6241d214bbe5f0490cff216 100755 (executable)
--- a/tests/incremen.sh
+++ b/tests/incremen.sh
@@ -2,17 +2,32 @@
 # A directory older than the listed entry was skipped completely.
 
 . ./preset
+TAR_ARCHIVE_FORMATS="gnu oldgnu"
 . $srcdir/before
 
 set -e
 mkdir structure
-touch structure/file
-# FIXME: The sleep is necessary for the second tar to work.  Exactly why?
+echo x >structure/file
+
+# On Nextstep (and perhaps other 4.3BSD systems),
+# a newly created file's ctime isn't updated
+# until the next sync or stat operation on the file.
+ls -l structure/file >/dev/null
+
+# If the time of an initial backup and the creation time of a file contained
+# in that backup are the same, the file will be backed up again when an
+# incremental backup is done, because the incremental backup backs up
+# files created `on or after' the initial backup time.  Without the sleep
+# command, behaviour of tar becomes variable, depending whether the system
+# clock ticked over to the next second between creating the file and
+# backing it up.
 sleep 1
+
 tar cf archive --listed=list structure
 tar cfv archive --listed=list structure
 echo -----
-touch structure/file
+sleep 1
+echo y >structure/file
 tar cfv archive --listed=list structure
 
 out="\