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From: charnier@lirmm.fr (Philippe CHARNIER)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: GNU tar on FreeBSD 2.0
Date: 03 Mar 1995 15:56:40 GMT
Organization: LIRM - Montpellier France
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Message-ID: <CHARNIER.95Mar3165640@baobab.lirmm.fr>
References: <WCP.95Feb25175036@lpds.lpds.com> <3j6uj8$dlr@gate.sinica.edu.tw>
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In-reply-to: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw's message of 3 Mar 1995 11:29:44 GMT
>>>>> "Brian" == Brian Tao <taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw> writes:
In article <3j6uj8$dlr@gate.sinica.edu.tw> taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao) writes:
Brian> Walter C. Pelissero (wcp@lpds.sublink.org) wrote: : : It
Brian> seems that I found a bug in GNU tar as distributed in
Brian> FreeBSD 2.0. : : In create.c a msg_perror() call is made
Brian> with a long long argument that : makes stdarg routines
Brian> (actually vfprintf()) dump a core. A proper cast : to long
Brian> fix the problem.
Brian> I've had GNU tar segfault while trying to clone a
Brian> filesystem using:
Brian> tar -cf - /usr/local | (cd /mnt ; tar -xvpf - )
fixed in FreeBSD-current
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