Re: [Bug-tar] tar: Child died with signal 11

[Charles Diza]

On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 12:56 PM, Charles Swiger <address@hidden> wrote:

On Feb 19, 2015, at 7:33 PM, Sean Morrison <address@hidden> wrote:
> I am using tar (GNU tar) 1.26, which is the version installed on mac OS X Yosemite.

Are you sure?  Mac OS X Yosemite ships with:

% /usr/bin/tar --version
bsdtar 2.8.3 - libarchive 2.8.3
% sw_vers
ProductName:    Mac OS X
ProductVersion: 10.10.2
BuildVersion:   14C109

...not a version of GNU tar.

 

Chuck is right; MacOSX has (always, I believe) shipped bsdtar.  Perhaps your tar is from Homebrew or Macports?

-Charles