Re: [Bug-tar] segmentation fault in 1.15.91-20060523 with incremental backups creation

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Thank you. Please, apply the following patch. 

Index: src/incremen.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/tar/tar/src/incremen.c,v
retrieving revision 1.45
diff -p -u -r1.45 incremen.c
--- src/incremen.c      13 May 2006 08:38:12 -0000      1.45
+++ src/incremen.c      26 May 2006 20:22:38 -0000
@@ -119,6 +119,7 @@ make_directory (const char *name)
   size_t namelen = strlen (name);
   size_t size = offsetof (struct directory, name) + namelen + 1;
   struct directory *directory = xmalloc (size);
+  memset (directory, 0, sizeof (*directory));
   strcpy (directory->name, name);
   if (ISSLASH (directory->name[namelen-1]))
     directory->name[namelen-1] = 0;

Regards,
Sergey