Re: [Bug-tar] segfault on solaris 11.1 with --remove-files in current directory

[Joerg Schilling]

Thorsten Hirsch <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm facing a segmentation fault with tar 1.27.1 on solaris 11.1:
>
> $ ./call_bug.sh
> [...current_dir...]/test
> ./
> ./bar
> ./foo
> ./call_bug.sh: line 5: 15341 Segmentation Fault      (core dumped) tar
> --remove-files --totals -czvf ../package.tar.gz .
>
> I guess --remove-files cannot be used anymore when the input is the current
> directory. This issue did not occur with tar 1.15 on solaris 10.
>
> stack trace:
>
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0x000346fc in tar_dirname () at misc.c:1008
> #1  0x0003ea0c in flush_deferred_unlinks (address@hidden) at
> unlink.c:92
> #2  0x0003eb3c in finish_deferred_unlinks () at unlink.c:147
> #3  0x00025b50 in create_archive () at create.c:1410
> #4  0x00069624 in main (argc=<optimized out>, argv=<optimized out>) at
> tar.c:2673

pstack or adb/mdb usually give much better help than gdb....

If it goes away with 

address@hidden command

it is a NULL pointer bug.


Jörg

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