tar with switches leads to stack dump

[Corinna Vinschen]

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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