bsdtar eats CPU when extracting POSIX tar archive

[Tim Kientzle]

Jun Kuriyama wrote:
> 
> ----- POSIX tar archive
> % file /var/tmp/vtun-2.6.tar
> /var/tmp/vtun-2.6.tar: POSIX tar archive
> % ls -l /var/tmp/vtun-2.6.tar
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  430080 Aug 23 18:54 /var/tmp/vtun-2.6.tar
> % sudo time -l tar xf /var/tmp/vtun-2.6.tar
>        65.75 real         0.22 user        62.64 sys

That certainly doesn't look right.

Does this happen consistently?

Can you send me a copy of this archive file so
I can try to reproduce it here?

Tim Kientzle