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Re: [Bug-tar] [GNU tar 1.27] testsuite: 63 85 failed
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Nathan Stratton Treadway |
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Re: [Bug-tar] [GNU tar 1.27] testsuite: 63 85 failed |
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Wed, 23 Oct 2013 00:10:01 -0400 |
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On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 19:23:47 -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote:
> > Both these failures turn out to be tar segfaulting when the ".."
> > directory is has "a-r" permissions.
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> There's a longstanding bug in GNU tar in that situation on Solaris,
> with a FIXME for it (there should be no reason to need absolute file
> names, even for incrementals), but the core dump shouldn't occur
> even with that bug present. I pushed the following patch, which
>
Ah, interesting -- I saw that FIXME note in the source, but didn't know
the specific history behind it.
(For anyone curious, the previous discusion on the Solaris
getcwd-with-unreadable-parent-dir issue can be found in the list-archive threads
starting with:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2010-06/msg00000.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2010-07/msg00035.html
)
Nathan
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