[csw-maintainers] CSWgtar - Segmentation Fault (core dumped)

[Joerg Schilling]

Ben Walton <bwalton at opencsw.org> wrote:

> Excerpts from Philip Brown's message of Mon Nov 15 12:13:52 -0500 2010:
>
> > So, seems like the GNU tar folks have recently become incompetant,
> > and we need to not trust new releases for a few months.  I'll
> > backrev to 1.23 I think.
>
> This could be centred on the same bug that showed up in coreutils
> after U9 came out.  There is an issue with setting time stamps in
> gnulib that was exposed by a change in U9.  Given that gtar uses
> gnulib and will be setting timestamps as it extracts files, I wouldn't
> be surprised if it's the same issue.

The GNUtar people seem to be working on a change from open() and similar 
towards openat() and similar. For many OS, there is a need for a emulation and 
it seems that the wrapper code does not always work currectly. It would be of 
interest whether the problems occur on Solaris 9 or newer or on Solaris 8.

I am planning a similar move for stare in the near future and I hope that I 
will be able to do this with less visible effects.

Jörg

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