[8258] in bugtraq
My buggy tar :-(
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (der Mouse)
Fri Oct 23 15:44:31 1998
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 08:48:05 -0400
Reply-To: der Mouse <mouse@RODENTS.MONTREAL.QC.CA>
From: der Mouse <mouse@RODENTS.MONTREAL.QC.CA>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
A while ago, here, I mentioned some evil-archive paranoia in my tar.
Several people asked for copies.
Chiaki Ishikawa <Chiaki.Ishikawa@personal-media.co.jp>, while working
on merging my "paranoia" code into GNU tar, managed to catch a bug that
my testing had missed. In retrospect, it's hard to see how I managed
to miss it, but miss it I did. Mea culpa.
The fix is very simple:
--- tar.c Sun Sep 27 15:07:55 1998
+++ tar.c+ Thu Oct 22 17:06:35 1998
@@ -5493,6 +5493,9 @@
{ if (DEBUG(J)) fprintf(debugf,"j: readsymlink failed (%s)\n",strerror(errno));
}
}
+ else
+ { pbp = slash;
+ }
}
}
}
In case the line numbers disagree with your copy somehow, this goes
near the end of the xpath_paranoia() function. (The debug line at the
top of the context should be enough to allow patch to find the right
place in the source.)
I seem to have thrown away my list of people to whom I sent individual
copies. I will be trying to reconstruct that list from my mailer logs;
if you asked for a copy and don't get an individual message from me
soon, I probably missed you, so either use the above patch or send me
mail....
der Mouse
mouse@rodents.montreal.qc.ca
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