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Description of problem: When I create tar archive with new tar (tar-1.22-10.fc12.x86_64) old tar is not able to open this archive. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): tar-1.22-10.fc12.x86_64 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1.create archive with new tar 2.try to extract it with old tar 3. Actual results: /bin/tar: squirrelmail-1.4.20-RC2/images/folder.png: Cannot utime: Bad file descriptor I've got this error in koji when updating package: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/getfile?taskID=1901164&name=build.log Expected results: extracted archive Additional info: this breaks package updates where maintainer has to recreate tar archive. Also upstream tarballs where upstream uses Fedora system may produce broken tarballs which is even worse, so I consider this to be high severity.
We figured out off-list the "old tar" from original report is 1.22-11.fc13, which is more likely a newer one :-)
As a sidenote - there were more such reports off-the-bugzlla - most likely caused by recent change in the new glibc - anyway - as the glibc maintainers are quite sure the problem is in tar, we should probably fix it.
> > That looks like a bug in tar, trying to call futimens with a bad file > > descriptor. > > Andreas Schwab > Probably, possibly exposed by this recent change in glibc-2.11.90-5: > - Handle AT_FDCWD in futimens (BZ#10992). > Tomas Bzatek Adding relevant part of the off-the-bugzilla conversation.
Here is duplicate report in debian (they have same problems with eglibc updated to POSIX2008) - patch fixing the issue is available there - http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=563726 - However - I tend to use latest gnulib lib/utimens.c - though - as they are other utimens/utimensat call related fixes.
Ah - even the latest gnulib doesn't handle this new recent change - so touch from coreutils might be affected as well as mentioned in debian bugzilla from comment #4. Therefore adding coreutils/gnulib upstream maintainer into CC. Jim, what do you think? Is the patch from http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=563726#66 good way to go and should be applied to gnulib/coreutils-8.3 to prevent touch (or better said futimens() with AT_FDCWD file descriptor) failures after glibc update?
Fixed in tar-1.22-12.fc13, closing RAWHIDE.
Hi Ondrej, Thanks again for the heads up. I've replied on bug-gnulib and Cc'd the debian bug address. (too bad bugzilla doesn't have a reply-to-via-email option): http://bugs.debian.org/563726#88
Thanks Jim for replies/confirmation of bugfix correctness. Yep - it would be good bugzilla improvement to have such thing.