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From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To: Sean McNeil <sean@mcneil.com>
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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