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 > -- > Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com > Reply below, not above; Indent with "> "; Cumulative like a play script. > Format: Plain text. Not HTML, multipart/alternative, base64, quoted-printable. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
