From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 20 12:14:09 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA00419 for current-outgoing; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 12:14:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from onyx.nervosa.com (root@[192.187.228.86]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA00413 for ; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 12:14:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from onyx.nervosa.com (coredump@onyx.nervosa.com [10.0.0.1]) by onyx.nervosa.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA28857; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 12:12:45 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 12:12:43 -0800 (PST) From: invalid opcode To: Juha Inkari cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GNU tar 1.11.2 In-Reply-To: <199603201441.QAA05944@lk-hp-20.hut.fi> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 20 Mar 1996, Juha Inkari wrote: > I just found, that a command: > tar -C /tmp -xsf foo.tar > drops core. This is because tar seems to assume, that when s flag is > used, there are more arguments to come, and ends up calling strlen(0) > (see patch below). > ---------------------------------------------- I noticed it always complains unless you specify -C last. == Chris Layne ======================================== Nervosa Computing == == coredump@nervosa.com ================ http://www.nervosa.com/~coredump ==