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Date:      Thu, 19 Aug 2004 12:40:43 -0700
From:      Sean McNeil <sean@mcneil.com>
To:        Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: bsdtar core dumps
Message-ID:  <1092944443.27327.2.camel@server.mcneil.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040817213813.GE3827@gothmog.gr>
References:  <1092777586.92327.9.camel@server.mcneil.com> <20040817213813.GE3827@gothmog.gr>

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On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 14:38, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On 2004-08-17 14:19, Sean McNeil <sean@mcneil.com> wrote:
> > Don't think this is amd64-specific, but perhaps....
> 
> It could be.  Or it might be a recent change that I haven't caught up
> with yet at home (see below).
> 
> > I just tried to unarchive a file that didn't exist and got a core dump:
> > tar zxvvf nonexistent.tar.gz
> 
> $ sysctl hw.machine_arch
> hw.machine_arch: i386
> $ tar zxvvf nonexistent.tar.gz
> tar: Error opening archive: Failed to open 'nonexistent.tar.gz': No such file or directory
> $ uname -v
> FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT #0: Sun Aug 15 23:21:29 EEST 2004     \
> sysop@gothmog.gr:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SOLERO
> 
> If versions of bsdtar more recent than Sunday night (around 19:00 UTC)
> all exhibit this problem, look for a recent change that causes this.
> 
> - Giorgos

-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  120648 Aug 18 14:25 /usr/bin/bsdtar

Still has the core dump.  I do not have debug compiled in right now, but
gdb tells me it is in __vfprintf.  I will recompile world with debug and
see.

sean@server sean]$ uname -a
FreeBSD server.mcneil.com 6.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT #31: Wed Aug
18 19:19:58 PDT 2004    
root@server.mcneil.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/AMD64  amd64

Sean




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