On Jan 29, 2001, Gerhard den Hollander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> As in docs/INSTALL?
> Ehm,
> docs INSTALL sais, use 1.12 w/ patches.
> I assumed (incorrectly) that 1.13 would work as well.
It's fixed in 2.4.2p1.
>>> Will 1.13.17 work ?
>> Yep, but there's a (rare?) bug in 1.13.17 that may cause it to crash.
> I just tested it
> ()I know, why ask, if you can test it yourself)
> and 1.13.17 works fine (the one that comes with Suse 7.0)
Which doesn't mean it wouldn't crash for you at certain obscure
conditions. Jean-Louis Martineau posted a message about the problem
(with patch) it a while ago. His patch made it to 1.13.19. As well
as his improvements for GNU tar to use hash tables instead of linear
searches for filenames, which should make it significantly faster.
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