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Date:      Wed, 20 Mar 1996 12:12:43 -0800 (PST)
From:      invalid opcode <coredump@nervosa.com>
To:        Juha Inkari <inkari@snakemail.hut.fi>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: GNU tar 1.11.2
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960320121216.28494A-100000@onyx.nervosa.com>
In-Reply-To: <199603201441.QAA05944@lk-hp-20.hut.fi>

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On Wed, 20 Mar 1996, Juha Inkari wrote:

> 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 noticed it always complains unless you specify -C last.

== Chris Layne ======================================== Nervosa Computing ==
== coredump@nervosa.com ================ http://www.nervosa.com/~coredump ==




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