Bug 113330

Summary: Wrong tar czvf exit code
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Nikos Balkanas <nikolaos.valkanas>
Component: tarAssignee: Peter Vrabec <pvrabec>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Ben Levenson <benl>
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Description Nikos Balkanas 2004-01-12 18:26:21 UTC 
Description of problem:
Wrong tar czvf exit code

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
tar-1.13.25-8

How reproducible:

Allways

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Put 3 fairly large ascii files (i.e. *.GMF) in directory
2. Run script:

#!/bin/bash
while [ "1" ]; do
   tar -czvf Nikos.tar.gz *.GMF
   echo "exit code = $?" >> Nikos.log
   sleep 20
done

3. Examine Nikos.log
  
Actual results:
stagingsrv01:/home/billlykos/geneva-> cat Nikos.log
exit code = 2
exit code = 2
exit code = 2
exit code = 2
exit code = 2
exit code = 2
exit code = 2
exit code = 2
exit code = 2
exit code = 2
exit code = 2
exit code = 2
exit code = 2
exit code = 2
exit code = 2
exit code = 2
exit code = 2
exit code = 2
exit code = 2
exit code = 2
exit code = 2

Expected results:

stagingsrv01:/home/billlykos/geneva-> cat Nikos.log
exit code = 0
exit code = 0
exit code = 0
exit code = 0
exit code = 0
exit code = 0
exit code = 0
exit code = 0
exit code = 0
exit code = 0
exit code = 0
exit code = 0
exit code = 0
exit code = 0
exit code = 0
exit code = 0
exit code = 0
exit code = 0
exit code = 0
exit code = 0
exit code = 0


Additional info:

The produced archive expands normally and diffs with no problems with 
originals. Why exit code = 2? OS is RH 8.0