svn commit: r228616 - head/usr.bin/tar

[Dimitry Andric]

On 2011-12-17 09:33, Kostik Belousov wrote:
>>  		const char *msg = "Unable to continue traversing"
>>  		    " directory hierarchy after a fatal error.";
>>  		write(2, msg, strlen(msg));
>> -		*(int *)0 = 1; /* Deliberate SEGV; NULL pointer dereference. */
>> +		*(volatile int *)0 = 1; /* Deliberate SEGV; NULL pointer dereference. */
>>  		exit(1); /* In case the SEGV didn't work. */
>>  	}
>>  
> Why this hack is used instead of abort(3) or abort2(2) ?

No idea, but it seems to be done that way now in upstream:

http://code.google.com/p/libarchive/source/browse/trunk/tar/tree.c#423

I didn't want to change the intent of the code at this time, just fix
warnings.  Maybe Tim will import another drop of libarchive soon.