tar has deficient error handling. send-pr fix sent 31 Jan 2011

[Tim Kientzle]

Thanks for the reminder Julian.

I've just committed a fix to trunk that I'd appreciate if you could look at.

> Might be nice if someone else would read through tar.

More eyes are always better!  I'd especially appreciate help
improving the test suite for tar.  I've put a lot of work into
the test suite for libarchive, but the tar front-end has seen
less effort in this area.

Cheers,

Tim

On Jun 23, 2011, at 9:20 AM, Julian H. Stacey wrote:

> FreeBSD tar has deficient error handling.  I sent a fix 31 Jan 2011
> 	http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=154407
> Please commit the fix or write & commit a better fix.
> 
> As error codes ignored, I wonder if other poor coding may lurk in tar.  
> Might be nice if someone else would read through tar.
> 
> ports/ : Tar allows some errors in ports pkg-list to go un-noticed.
>  Using make package, tar fails to see errors, fails to return error
>  to make, some pkg-list not checked properly & accumulate errors,
>  A bunch of errors will probably show up when tar is fixed, the
>  more the longer we do nothing.  ( I can't remember which pkg-list
>  are broken, I've not kept note, The solution is to read tar &
>  commit a fix to tar ASAP)
> 
> Cheers,
> Julian
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