Re: [Bug-tar] tar 1.24: OpenBSD testsuite failures

[Paul Eggert]

On 10/26/10 02:39, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> 34: extrac09.at:22   no need to save dir with unreadable . and ..
> 36: extrac11.at:23   scarce file descriptors
> 53: listed03.at:22   incremental dump when the parent directory is unreadable

Thanks for the bug report.  The failures for extrac09.at and
listed03.at are, I suspect, a known problem; see the thread containing
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2010-07/msg00035.html>.

The test 36 failure is new, though.  It's not clear from the bug
report whether this is a bug in your shell (which our test case should
be changed, to work around the bug) or a bug in tar itself.  To help
track this down, can you send us the ktrace output for the offending
test?  I don't have easy access to an OpenBSD host, but if I'm right,
the following should do the trick.  (You might have to compress the
output to make the email manageable in size.)

cd tests
ktrace -df tr make check TESTSUITEFLAGS=36
kdump -f tr