-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 unshar 4.4 coredumps due to an unitialized variable [1], (not to mention it executes arbirary shell code, which can be considered a security flaw[2], but that is inherent in the design of shar rather than something patchable in code). Since it has been close to a month since cygwin sharutils-4.4-1 was released, nobody is using unshar very much :)
Upstream is about to release 4.5.2, but even 4.5.2-pre1 core dumps due to the refactoring of unshar to get rid of the uninitialized variable. Corinna, since shar and tar are functionally related (both create archives), would you like it if I took over maintainership of sharutils, to leave you more time with cygwin itself? [1]http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2005-07/msg00101.html [2]http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2005-07/msg00102.html - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDFFoW84KuGfSFAYARAv5PAKCOo6DGtbnTGGNzEhFgV55AL3H11gCfYzlw senjOoP07w8oTgWfVYeZU1A= =mmwN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
