>Synopsis: pax(1) gets stuck in a loop creating intermediate directories
>Category: user
>Environment:
System : OpenBSD 5.8
Details : OpenBSD 5.8 (GENERIC.MP) #1236: Sun Aug 16 02:31:04 MDT
2015
dera...@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/a
On Sun, 14 Feb 2016, Nicolas Bedos wrote:
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> >Description:
> Please note I could only test this on a -stable machine.
>
> pax(1) gets stuck in an infinite loop when recreating intermediate
> directories from a pathname ending with '/' while extracting a cpio
> archive
It can al
On Sun, 14 Feb 2016, Philip Guenther wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Feb 2016, Nicolas Bedos wrote:
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> > >Fix:
> > I did some digging and it seems pax gets stuck in a loop after
> > calling node_creat (file_subs.c) to create /tmp/foo/bar:
> ...
> > The first argument of chk_path seems to end wi
2016-02-16 1:22 GMT+03:00 Philip Guenther :
> On Sun, 14 Feb 2016, Philip Guenther wrote:
>> On Sun, 14 Feb 2016, Nicolas Bedos wrote:
> ...
>> > >Fix:
>> > I did some digging and it seems pax gets stuck in a loop after
>> > calling node_creat (file_subs.c) to create /tmp/foo/bar:
>> ...
>>
On Mon, 15 Feb 2016, Vadim Zhukov wrote:
> > @@ -613,6 +614,17 @@ chk_path(char *name, uid_t st_uid, gid_t
>
> Hello, Philip.
>
> I think we should change "if" to "while" in this function, too...
> After that, okay zhuk@.
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> /*
>* watch out for paths with nodes stored directly in
On Mon Feb 15, Philip Guenther wrote:
> ...and since pax's tar format code only trims a single trailing slash, it
> will loop even in that case if you add more than one trailing slash.
>
> Indeed, if you add more than one trailing slash in general then it'll
> still hang despite your patch: to
