* Fixed a small bug that could cause tar to emit warning messages

    and not extract the first file in a directory in some cases
    of nested directories.  Thanks to Kevin Traas <kevin@netmaster.com>
    for helping track this one down.
 -Erik


git-svn-id: svn://busybox.net/trunk/busybox@633 69ca8d6d-28ef-0310-b511-8ec308f3f277

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/tar.c b/tar.c
index 7d440f451..86f996576 100644
--- a/tar.c
+++ b/tar.c
@@ -300,11 +300,14 @@ tarExtractRegularFile(TarInfo *header, int extractFlag, int tostdoutFlag)
 
         /* Open the file to be written, if a file is supposed to be written */
         if (extractFlag==TRUE && tostdoutFlag==FALSE) {
-                if ((outFd=open(header->name, O_CREAT|O_TRUNC|O_WRONLY, header->mode & ~S_IFMT)) < 0)
-                        errorMsg(io_error, header->name, strerror(errno)); 
                 /* Create the path to the file, just in case it isn't there...
                  * This should not screw up path permissions or anything. */
                 createPath(header->name, 0777);
+                if ((outFd=open(header->name, O_CREAT|O_TRUNC|O_WRONLY, 
+                                                header->mode & ~S_IFMT)) < 0) {
+                        errorMsg(io_error, header->name, strerror(errno)); 
+                        return( FALSE);
+                }
         }
 
         /* Write out the file, if we are supposed to be doing that */