Re: Nasty Tar Problem

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From: Herbert Xu
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 00:00

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Warwick HARVEY wrote:
> 
> <jfoster@coenzac.eas.gu.edu.au> writes:
> >I've got a very nasty problem with tar 1.11.8-5 ona debian 1.2 system
> >If I try to unpack a multivolume archive with
> >tar -M -x -v -f /dev/fd0
> >I get a segfault and core dump.
> >gdb reports that the sigfault comes from libc-5.4.13
> 
> If the problem is due to libc5.4.13, and you can get hold of a copy of
> libc5.2.18 (or whatever), then you can set your LD_PRELOAD environment
> variable to point at the old libc.  This means it will look in the old libc
> first when doing the dynamic linking.

Just a note about 5.4.x v 5.2.x.  5.2.18 might well cure this
problem, but it definitely is not a bug in 5.4.13.  The bug
is in tar and it is only activated by 5.4.13 because the
latter is more stringent in the malloc/free department.
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