i386/76294: builtin gzip in tar fails

[Bakul Shah]

>Number:         76294
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       builtin gzip in tar fails
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-i386
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Jan 15 21:10:27 GMT 2005
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Bakul Shah
>Release:        FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD mail.bitblocks.com 6.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT #14: Sun Dec 26 22:48:11 PST 2004 bakul at dragon.bitblocks.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/BAKUL i386


	
>Description:
	tar -ztvf foo fails where gzcat foo | tar -tvf - works
>How-To-Repeat:
	pick up http://swtch.com/plan9port/plan9port.tgz
	and try running the above commands

>Fix:

	Work around is to not use -z flag of tar


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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