>Number:         3847
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       tar xvf (ie no "z") of .gz'ed file gives segmentation fault
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    bin-bug-people (Utility Bug People)
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Jul  9 08:50:01 1997
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Laine Stump
>Organization:
Ascend Communications
>Release:        NetBSD-1.2G
>Environment:
System: NetBSD seal.morningstar.com 1.2G NetBSD 1.2G (64MB-IDE) #0: Mon Jul 7 11:05:49 EDT 1997 laine@seal.morningstar.com:/usr/src-1.2G/sys/arch/i386/compile/64MB-IDE i386


>Description:

	If tar is run on a gzip'ed file, but the "z" option is forgotten,
	tar coredumps instead of printing an error message. This was seen
	with the file etc12G

>How-To-Repeat:

	execute "tar tvf etc12G.tar.gz"

>Fix:

	Don't know; didn't look.

	Note that we should also update to the newest tar source (now
	something > 1.11.14, while we have 1.11.5)
>Audit-Trail:
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