bsdtar core dumps
Sean McNeil
sean at mcneil.com
Thu Aug 19 12:40:46 PDT 2004
On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 14:38, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On 2004-08-17 14:19, Sean McNeil <sean at 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 at 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
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 120648 Aug 18 14:25 /usr/bin/bsdtar
Still has the core dump. I do not have debug compiled in right now, but
gdb tells me it is in __vfprintf. I will recompile world with debug and
see.
sean at server sean]$ uname -a
FreeBSD server.mcneil.com 6.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT #31: Wed Aug
18 19:19:58 PDT 2004
root at server.mcneil.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/AMD64 amd64
Sean
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