Re: [Trinux-talk] busybox-tar crashes

[Matthew F. <mf...@ci...>]

Helmut,

Thanks. I'll add this to the bug page. I believe I've seen some discussion
on the busybox mailing list about fprintf issues.. 

For those that aren't aware of it. The gnu version of tar is available in
the fileutil.tgz package.

- mdf

> Hallo,
> 
> my busybox-tar crashes with "tar -xvf some.tar" when the file has a  
> size of about 300 MByte.
> It tells something about GLIBC and "fprint" or "fprintf" - I haven't  
> noticed the exact text, sorry.
> And then I have to push the reset switch.
> 
> On several machines (586 with 32 MByte RAM) it always crashes at the  
> same time (at the same file).
> 
> Sometimes (in 2 of about 14 tries) it doesn't crash - don't know why.
> 
> Maybe it will crash with smaller files - I have seen this behaviour  
> with a file of this size.
> The "real" tar does work without any problem.
> 
> Busybox 2003-07-20
> 
> Viele Gruesse!
> Helmut
> 
> 
> 
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