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From: nick_andrew@f602.n713.fido.oz (Nick Andrew)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Bug in Minix 1.5.6 tar
Message-ID: <17759@ultima.cs.uts.oz>
Date: 25 Apr 90 21:12:07 GMT
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        I have noticed a bug in 1.5.6 tar(1); it manifests
itself as follows:

When tarring a large directory tree (over 2.4 Mb), after
some point tar stops reading the files within a directory.
The directory name is printed to stderr, but no files are
added to the tarfile.

To reproduce, do "tar cv - / >/dev/null" and watch the
output. After a while, you'll see a whole heap of "read
directory" messages without any interspersed file messages.

This is not good!

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