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From: rang@cpsin3.cps.msu.edu (Anton Rang)
Newsgroups: gnu.utils.bug
Subject: Bug in GNU tar 1.03: exclude operation (-X)
Message-ID: <1543@cps3xx.UUCP>
Date: 17 Jan 89 03:40:16 GMT
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Reply-To: rang@cpswh.cps.msu.edu (Anton Rang)
Organization: Michigan State University, Computer Science Dept.
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System: Sun-3/280, SunOS 3.4.

The command line:

    gnutar -c -b 100 -v -f /tmp/rmt0 -z -l -V "cps45x: /usr 1-16-88" \
    -X /usr/users/staff/rang/stuff/00yy .

causes GNU tar to crash with the message "Couldn't re-allocate memory". 
I tracked it down to the routine add_exclude in tar.c, which calls
ck_realloc() on a null pointer.

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| Anton Rang (grad student) | "UNIX: Just Say No!"   | "Do worry...be SAD!" |
| Michigan State University | rang@cpswh.cps.msu.edu |                      |
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