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From: meyering@cs.utexas.edu (Jim Meyering)
Newsgroups: gnu.utils.bug
Subject: tar-1.04 -cz hangs on sun4-os4
Message-ID: <159@ai.cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 4 Feb 89 06:01:29 GMT
Distribution: gnu
Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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The problem shows up on sun4-os4, not sun3.
Tar version 1.04.

% ls foo
bar     foo     lkj
% tar -f foo.tar.Z -cvz foo
foo/
foo/lkj
foo/dfd
foo/bar
^C%                      <--- here I had to interrupt.

'ps' indicated that compress was hung.
Tar was hung on line 1291 of buffer.c.
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Jim Meyering      meyering@cs.utexas.edu