Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 09:23:04 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net> To: Juha Inkari <inkari@snakemail.hut.fi> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GNU tar 1.11.2 Message-ID: <199603201623.JAA07794@rocky.sri.MT.net> In-Reply-To: <199603201441.QAA05944@lk-hp-20.hut.fi> References: <199603201441.QAA05944@lk-hp-20.hut.fi>
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> I just found, that a command: > > tar -C /tmp -xsf foo.tar > > drops core. This is because tar seems to assume, that when s flag is > used, there are more arguments to come, and ends up calling strlen(0) > (see patch below). > > I looked up GNU tar 1.11.8 (dated May 1995), and the code indeed seems > to have changed a bit. It doesn't work correctly either, but gives a > "Missing file name after -C". > > However, is anyone considered bumping the tar version from 1.11.2 > (March 1993) to 1.11.8 for any reason whatever ? I looked at it a while back, and the new GNU tar contains a lot of stuff that I don't think we need, but one of the international folks (ie; 8-bit clean) like Andrey comment. Nate
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