Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 19:49:38 -0700 From: "Jason C. Wells" <jcw@highperformance.net> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: tar dumps core when appending to empty file Message-ID: <6CCE035F71E8316B634212C5@[192.168.1.16]>
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What I am trying to do is:
$ touch Makefiles.tar
$ find . -name Makefile.orig -exec tar -r -f Makefiles.tar {} \;
This causes tar to dump core as fast as find can find the specified files.
So I tried:
$ touch Makefiles.tar
$ tar -r -f Makefiles.tar Makefile.inc1
And also got a core dump. I then tried:
$ tar -c -f Makefiles.tar Makefile.inc1
$ find . -name Makefile.orig -exec tar -r -f Makefiles.tar {} \;
This worked as I expected.
I seem to have uncovered a bug. It seems reasonable to me to append to an
empty file. Perhaps I am missing some sort of arcana here.
Later,
Jason C. Wells
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