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From: waltje@uwalt.nl.mugnet.org (Fred 'The Rebel' van Kempen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Tar memory leak
Message-ID: <910416752@uwalt.nl.mugnet.org>
Date: 16 Apr 91 03:18:06 GMT
References: <3910@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU>
Organization: MicroWalt Corporation, for MINIX Software Development
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cechew@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU (Earl Chew) wrote:
> 
> Here is a patch to tar to cure a memory leak.
> 
> 1. Directories are remembered twice.
> 2. Once remembered, inodes are never forgotten.
> 
> This has a bad effect on large file systems where there are many directories.
> Each directory costs you double (since it's remembered twice) and once the
> directory is scanned, it is not forgotten.
> 
> I wonder how many people have given up on tar and are using gnu-tar or pax?

Nope- just use PdTar, and be In Heaven ... :-)

Fred.
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