Re: [Bug-tar] Fwd: bug in GnuTar

[Tim Kientzle]

Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:
> Vitaly V. Ch <address@hidden> ha escrit:
>
> > On some machines run under slackware 10.2 next test always fail:
> >
> > for ((i=0;i<1000;i++)); do echo $i >$i; tar cz $i >>file.tgz; done;
> > gzip -t -v file.tgz
>
> It should have failed. You cannot glue together two compressed files and
> expect the result to be a valid compressed file.

That doesn't quite explain why his second example always
works for him, though:

> but following test always success on all machines:
>
>  for ((i=0;i<1000;i++)); do echo $i >$i; tar c $i | gzip >>file.tgz;
> done; gzip -t -v file.tgz

It does sound as though tar is exiting before the child
gzip under some circumstances.

Tim Kientzle