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From: Jonathan Hanna <jh@pc-21490.bc.rogers.wave.ca>
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To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: no error exit code from tar on child failure
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>Number:         5982
>Category:       gnu
>Synopsis:       no error exit code from tar on child failure
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Mar 11 12:00:07 PST 1998
>Closed-Date:    Thu May 09 14:38:53 PDT 2002
>Last-Modified:  Thu May 09 14:38:53 PDT 2002
>Originator:     Jonathan Hanna
>Release:        FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386
>Organization:
>Environment:

>Description:

tar reports the failure of gzip, but does not reflect that in
its own exit status.

>How-To-Repeat:

# echo j > k
# tar -tvf k
tar: only read 2 bytes from archive k
# echo $status
3
# tar -tzvf k

gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: child returned status 1
# echo $status
0

>Fix:
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: johan 
State-Changed-When: Thu May 9 14:37:11 PDT 2002 
State-Changed-Why:  
Superseeded by PR 30876 

Fixed in rev 1.5 (MFC 1.2.12.1) of src/gnu/usr.bin/tar/buffer.c 


http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=5982 
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