Bug 22569 - "tar tzf -" hang
Summary: "tar tzf -" hang
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 18546
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: tar
Version: 7.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2000-12-20 05:51 UTC by Need Real Name
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:30 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2000-12-20 05:51:27 UTC
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Description Need Real Name 2000-12-20 05:51:24 UTC
when using "tar tzf -", it will hang.
I debug into tar source codes, and found that "tar-1.13.17-exitcode.patch"
use "waitpid()" system call, it use third parameter with zero, which means
that it will hang until child process exit, but "gzip -d" child process
never exit.

Comment 1 Daniel Roesen 2000-12-20 08:06:58 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 18546 ***

Comment 2 Daniel Roesen 2000-12-20 08:07:25 UTC
Fix is in Rawhide btw...


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