[Bug-tar] [GNU tar 1.26] testsuite: 6 failed

[Ray Lauff]

/bin/bash ./testsuite 
## ------------------------ ##
## GNU tar 1.26 test suite. ##
## ------------------------ ##
  1: tar version                                     ok
  2: decompressing from stdin                        ok
  3: mixing options                                  ok
  4: interspersed options                            ok
  5: files-from: empty entries                       ok
  6: files-from: 0-separated file without -0         FAILED (T-null.at:28)
  7: tar --index-file=FILE --file=-                  ok
  8: tar cvf -                                       ok
  9: append                                          ok
 10: appending files with long names                 ok
 11: append vs. create                               ok
 12: append with name transformation                 ok
 13: transforming hard links on create               ok
 14: transformations and GNU volume labels           ok
 15: exclude                                         ok
 16: exclude wildcards                               ok
 17: exclude: anchoring                              ok
 18: exclude: wildcards match slash                  ok
 19: exclude: case insensitive                       ok
 20: exclude: lots of excludes                       ok
 21: exclude: long files in pax archives             ok
 22: deleting a member after a big one               ok
 23: deleting a member from stdin archive            ok
 24: deleting members with long names                ok
 25: deleting a large last member                    ok
 26: deleting non-existing member                    ok
 27: extract over an existing directory              ok
 28: extracting symlinks over an existing file       ok
 29: extraction loops                                ok
 30: extract + fnmatch                               ok
 31: extracting selected members from pax            ok
 32: mode of extracted directories                   ok
 33: extracting symlinks to a read-only dir          skipped (extrac07.at:30)
 34: restoring mode on existing directory            ok
 35: no need to save dir with unreadable . and ..    skipped (extrac09.at:25)
 36: -C and delayed setting of metadata              ok
 37: scarce file descriptors                         ok
 38: extract dot permissions                         ok
 39: extract over symlinks                           ok
 40: extract -C symlink                              ok
 41: extract parent mkdir failure                    skipped (extrac15.at:26)
 42: extract empty directory with -C                 ok
 43: name matching/transformation ordering           ok
 44: single-volume label                             ok
 45: multi-volume label                              ok
 46: test-label option                               ok
 47: label with non-create option                    ok
 48: label with non-create option                    ok
 49: extracting existing dir with --backup           ok
 50: gzip                                            ok
 51: incremental                                     ok
 52: restore broken symlinks from incremental        ok
 53: restoring timestamps from incremental           ok
 54: --listed for individual files                   ok
 55: working --listed                                ok
 56: incremental dump when the parent directory is unreadable skipped 
(listed03.at:25)
 57: --listed-incremental and --one-file-system      ok
 58: renamed files in incrementals                   ok
 59: proper icontents initialization                 ok
 60: incremental dumps with -C                       ok
 61: incremental dumps of nested directories         ok
 62: file removed as we read it (ca. 22 seconds)     ok
 63: toplevel file removed (ca. 24 seconds)          ok
 64: renamed dirs in incrementals                    ok
 65: move between hierarchies                        ok
 66: cyclic renames                                  ok
 67: renamed directory containing subdirectories     ok
 68: renamed subdirectories                          ok
 69: changed file types in incrementals              ok
 70: ignfail                                         skipped (ignfail.at:26)
 71: link count gt 2                                 ok
 72: preserve hard links with --remove-files         ok
 73: working -l with --remove-files                  ok
 74: link count is 1 but multiple occurrences        ok
 75: long names in V7 archives                       ok
 76: long file names divisible by block size         ok
 77: ustar: unsplittable file name                   ok
 78: ustar: unsplittable path name                   ok
 79: ustar: splitting long names                     ok
 80: multivolume dumps from pipes                    ok
 81: skipping a straddling member                    ok
 82: MV archive & long filenames                     ok
 83: split directory members in a MV archive         ok
 84: Restoring after an out of sync volume           ok
 85: Multivolumes with L=record_size                 ok
 86: volumes split at an extended header             skipped (multiv07.at:29)
 87: multivolume header creation                     ok
 88: old archives                                    ok
 89: recurse                                         ok
 90: working -C with --same-order                    ok
 91: multiple -C options                             ok
 92: short records                                   ok
 93: sparse files                                    ok
 94: extracting sparse file over a pipe              ok
 95: storing sparse files > 8G                       ok
 96: storing long sparse file names                  ok
 97: sparse files in MV archives                     ok
 98: sparse files in PAX MV archives, v.0.0          ok
 99: sparse files in PAX MV archives, v.0.1          ok
100: sparse files in PAX MV archives, v.1.0          ok
101: update unchanged directories                    ok
102: update directories                              ok
103: update changed files                            ok
104: verify                                          ok
105: volume                                          ok
106: volume header size                              skipped (volsize.at:32)
107: compressed format recognition                   ok
108: short input files                               ok
109: updating short archives                         ok
110: truncate                                        ok
111: grow                                            ok
112: remove-files with compression                   skipped (remfiles01.at:32)
113: remove-files with compression: grand-child      ok
114: remove-files with symbolic links                ok
115: sigpipe handling                                ok
116: gtarfail                                        skipped (gtarfail.at:26)
117: gtarfail2                                       skipped (gtarfail2.at:26)
118: multi-fail                                      skipped (multi-fail.at:26)
119: ustar-big-2g                                    skipped 
(ustar-big-2g.at:26)
120: ustar-big-8g                                    skipped 
(ustar-big-8g.at:26)
121: pax-big-10g                                     skipped (pax-big-10g.at:26)

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## Test results. ##
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ERROR: 107 tests were run,
1 failed unexpectedly.
14 tests were skipped.
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## testsuite.log was created. ##
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You may investigate any problem if you feel able to do so, in which
case the test suite provides a good starting point.  Its output may
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