Package: tar Version: 1.16-2 Severity: normal To reproduce the error do this:
1- echo "filename" > filelist 2- echo "" >>filelist 3- tar xvfz tarfile.tgz -T filelist Note: its not necessary that "filename" exists. When you use -T, the contents of the file is dumped into the argv vector. Each line should contain a file name, optionally with its path. You will have a segment violation because on line 421 of lib/getopt.c you have: if (d->optind != argc && !strcmp (argv[d->optind], "--")) optind will point to the position in argv where the file name is stored, in the case of the emppy line argv[d->optind] will point to an empty string, so strcmp will SIGSEGV. There are two possible options as I see it. 1- Changing that line to: if (d->optind != argc && argv[d->optind] && !strcmp (argv[d->optind], "--")) 2- Fix the parsing of -T so an empty line won't be included in the dump to argv vector. Both options could be included at once, since #1 will robust these processing in case some other similar error happens, but just #2 will also suffice. I tried to report this upstream but bug reporting is limited to memebers of the project. Regads,HTH. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (100, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18p4s Locale: LANG=es_ES.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_ES.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages tar depends on: ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries tar recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
