Segv Fault in GNU tar

[Dr Andreas F Muller]

Hello,

I think I've found a bug in GNU tar. I use Amanda to  do  backups
in  may  network.  When Amanda starts up, it first gets estimates
of the size of the dumps using the commands

    cd /usr/local/abacus
    tar --create --file /dev/null --directory /usr/local/abacus \
    --listed-incremental /var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lits/tpl_usr_local_amanda_0.new 
\
    --sparxe --ignore-failed-read --totals .

On a Linux Box (SuSE 7.3, Kernel 2.4.10, glic 2.2.4),  his  works
as  long  as the output (written to /dev/null) is not larger than
4GB. As soon as it becomes larger than 4GB, GNU tar  seg  faults,
which  to amanda means that the disk is offline, and no backup is
performed. I also tried some other systems, but could not  repro-
duce this behavior neither on Solaris 2.6 nor on FreeBSD 4.1.

Any suggestions how I could fix this.

Mit herzlichem Gruss

                                        Andreas Mueller

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