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Re: tar with switches leads to stack dump
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 12:37:23 +0100
- Subject: Re: tar with switches leads to stack dump
- References: <000001c60608$8ab30190$500210ac@tcgp.dundee.ac.uk>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Dec 21 08:28, fergus wrote:
> I'm trying to append several new files to an existing zipped .tar.gz and
> maintain the zipped format. I find that
> tar -vrzf exist.tar.gz *.new
> leads to an
> Aborted (core dumped)
> message. More than likely my syntax is faulty, but maybe not. (Creating a
> .tar.gz from scratch using "tar -vczf .." works fine. Appending new files to
> an existing .tar using "tar -vrf exist.tar *.new" works fine.) This happens
> with 1.5.18 and 1.5.19s 20051220. Please can anybody put me right or confirm
> the core dump? Thank you.
> Fergus
Confirmed. Looks like tar is calling abort() at one point, without
printing any error message beforehand.
Corinna
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