[Bugs] [Bug 1058526] tar keeps reporting "file changed as we read it" on random files

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1058526

Krutika Dhananjay <kdhananj at redhat.com> changed:

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--- Comment #17 from Krutika Dhananjay <kdhananj at redhat.com> ---
(In reply to Mark O'Keefe from comment #15)
> I'm also seeing this same behaviour running a Cygwin environment on a
> Windows 8.1 server.
> My suspicion is that it has to do with virus and on-access scanners.
> 
> The "Change" attribute is changing by a little less than 3 seconds between
> creation and subsequent tar operations.  The creation is via a copy from one
> location to another.
> 
> Is it possible to just ignore this attribute and not fail?  This is killing
> build pipelines unreasonably :-(
> 
> Looking forward to a fix as there is no real workaround for this.

Mark,

As a workaround, have you tried invoking tar with the
"--warning=no-file-changed" option? According to the man page of tar, using
this option should suppress warnings of this nature.

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