Re: bin/56257: tar segfaults during emacs build

[RVP <rvp%SDF.ORG@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/56257; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: RVP <rvp%SDF.ORG@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: jsarkes%gmail.com@localhost
Subject: Re: bin/56257: tar segfaults during emacs build
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2021 19:46:29 +0000 (UTC)

 On Thu, 17 Jun 2021, jsarkes%gmail.com@localhost wrote:
 
 > at various times including building emacs and emacs 27 tar segfaults doing the .elc files. It has also died on me using other earlier versions of Netbsd, 9, 9.1, 9.2. I'm used to moving and copying directories using cpio and tar and was surprised a number of times by the segfault.
 >
 >
 
 May not be a tar bug at all. Can you see if yours is a duplicate
 of any of these 2 PRs which have been fixed in the newer -HEADs?
 
 #56080: tar(1) dumps core on nfs volume
 #56083: tar -c hangs when reading from FUSE-ext2 filesystems
 
 -RVP