That was a simple tar cvf TAR_FILE TARRED_FILE, but not as the root user
(as my own ID).  I would not expect my UID or GID to necessarily be
present on your server, but that doesn't normally cause a problem when
running tar -x as an unprivileged user.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Glenn Fowler [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 12:18 AM
> To: [email protected]; [email protected]; 
> [email protected]; Wiersba, John (Healthcare USA)
> Subject: Re: Position-dependent ksh bug
> 
> 
> thanks John, I should have been more specific
> I own the ast pax command and it didn't recognize your 
> original tar file
> so I'm interested is how you generated *that* one to see if I can
> narrow down the problem to either my pax or "your" tar
> 
> On Wed, 9 Sep 2009 22:16:46 -0400  wrote:
> > I recreated the bug.tar file with everything owned by root, so you
> > shouldn't have any issues.  I have included two driver 
> files which show
> > up the bug, both with and without strace.  Diff'ing the 
> trace files, I
> > can see that the position where the bug occurs is at a 8196 byte
> > boundary, so there must be some issue there in the code, at least in
> > version sh (AT&T Labs Research) 1993-12-28 q.
> 
> 
> 

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