Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 18:20:32 +0200 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org Cc: kientzle@freebsd.org, portsmaster@freebsd.org Subject: tar has deficient error handling. send-pr fix sent 31 Jan 2011 Message-ID: <201106231620.p5NGKWD6008177@fire.js.berklix.net>
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FreeBSD tar has deficient error handling. I sent a fix 31 Jan 2011 http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=154407 Please commit the fix or write & commit a better fix. As error codes ignored, I wonder if other poor coding may lurk in tar. Might be nice if someone else would read through tar. ports/ : Tar allows some errors in ports pkg-list to go un-noticed. Using make package, tar fails to see errors, fails to return error to make, some pkg-list not checked properly & accumulate errors, A bunch of errors will probably show up when tar is fixed, the more the longer we do nothing. ( I can't remember which pkg-list are broken, I've not kept note, The solution is to read tar & commit a fix to tar ASAP) Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below, not above; Indent with "> "; Cumulative like a play script. Format: Plain text. Not HTML, multipart/alternative, base64, quoted-printable.
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