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From: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: GNU tar on FreeBSD 2.0
Date: 3 Mar 1995 11:29:44 GMT
Organization: Computing Center, Academia Sinica
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Walter C. Pelissero (wcp@lpds.sublink.org) wrote:
:
: It seems that I found a bug in GNU tar as distributed in FreeBSD 2.0.
:
: In create.c a msg_perror() call is made with a long long argument that
: makes stdarg routines (actually vfprintf()) dump a core. A proper cast
: to long fix the problem.
I've had GNU tar segfault while trying to clone a filesystem using:
tar -cf - /usr/local | (cd /mnt ; tar -xvpf - )
Using rdist worked nicely, but I never got around to tracking down
the cause of the segfault. It looks like the same one you tracked down
though. I'll give the patch a try.