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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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Fri, 25 Oct 2013 12:13:27 -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
> fixes the core dump for me on my Solaris 10 sparc host.
By the way, am I correct that your patch also allows extrac09.at to pass
(even on Solaris)? As I read the history, it seems to be expected that
listed03.at will still fail in this particular situation, but the point
of the extrac09 test is that it should be possible to work around the
issue in the extract case.
Nathan
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