On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 19:23:47 -0700, Paul Eggert wrote: > Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: > > Both these failures turn out to be tar segfaulting when the ".." > > directory is has "a-r" permissions. > > There's a longstanding bug in GNU tar in that situation on Solaris, > with a FIXME for it (there should be no reason to need absolute file > names, even for incrementals), but the core dump shouldn't occur > even with that bug present. I pushed the following patch, which >
Ah, interesting -- I saw that FIXME note in the source, but didn't know the specific history behind it. (For anyone curious, the previous discusion on the Solaris getcwd-with-unreadable-parent-dir issue can be found in the list-archive threads starting with: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2010-06/msg00000.html http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2010-07/msg00035.html ) Nathan ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nathan Stratton Treadway - natha...@ontko.com - Mid-Atlantic region Ray Ontko & Co. - Software consulting services - http://www.ontko.com/ GPG Key: http://www.ontko.com/~nathanst/gpg_key.txt ID: 1023D/ECFB6239 Key fingerprint = 6AD8 485E 20B9 5C71 231C 0C32 15F3 ADCD ECFB 6239
