Package: tar
Version: 1.16-2
Severity: important

Hello,

I have a pretty reproducible segmentation fault with Debian's gtar on a
regular amd64 system. Not reproducible on i386. The scenarios is simply
feeding tar via -T with many files, something about 400.000 and then it
just segfaults, eg. with "locate . | tar -c -T- > /dev/null".
A quick look with gdb shows the problematic line getopt.c:421 but I have
not enough time to hunt the bug down right now.

Eduard.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.20
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages tar depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries

tar recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information


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