Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 09:41:36 -0700 From: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org> To: Julian H. Stacey <jhs@berklix.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, portsmaster@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tar has deficient error handling. send-pr fix sent 31 Jan 2011 Message-ID: <31D907F2-1F80-40B4-BDC3-486E3F988FE7@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <201106231620.p5NGKWD6008177@fire.js.berklix.net> References: <201106231620.p5NGKWD6008177@fire.js.berklix.net>
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Thanks for the reminder Julian. I've just committed a fix to trunk that I'd appreciate if you could look = at. > Might be nice if someone else would read through tar. More eyes are always better! I'd especially appreciate help improving the test suite for tar. I've put a lot of work into the test suite for libarchive, but the tar front-end has seen less effort in this area. Cheers, Tim On Jun 23, 2011, at 9:20 AM, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > FreeBSD tar has deficient error handling. I sent a fix 31 Jan 2011 > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3D154407 > Please commit the fix or write & commit a better fix. >=20 > As error codes ignored, I wonder if other poor coding may lurk in tar. = =20 > Might be nice if someone else would read through tar. >=20 > 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) >=20 > Cheers, > Julian > --=20 > 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. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to = "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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