tar -cjf

[Denys Vlasenko]

On Tuesday 01 July 2008 17:21, Vladimir Dronnikov wrote:
> Oops!
> 
> # tar -cjf tar.bz2 some-dir
> Segmentation fault
> 
> File tar.bz2 is created and contains the only line
> bzip2: bunzip error 0
> 
> But
> # strace -f -v 2>2 /bin/tar -cjf tar.bz2 some-dir
> 
> creates perfectly valid archive.
> 
> The point is in stderr redirected?

No, it's me being an idiot. After vfork you may not return
from a function.

strace -f makes vfork work as fork and masks this.
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