Re: [Bug-tar] segfault on solaris 11.1 with --remove-files in current directory

[Paul Eggert]

Thanks for reporting that.  It's a bug on GNU/Linux too.  I installed 
the attached patch; please give it a try if you have the time.

I should mention that older versions of GNU tar did not try to remove 
directories in this case, which explains why you didn't see a problem 
with tar trying to remove ".".   With the fix, tar will complain that it 
can't remove ".", which is arguably the correct behavior.  To have the 
fixed tar remove "." without complaining, please use the -C option, 
e.g., something like this:

$ mkdir test
$ touch test/foo
$ tar --remove-files -cf test.tar -C test .
$ ls -al test
ls: cannot access test: No such file or directory
$ tar -tvf test.tar
drwxr-xr-x eggert/eggert     0 2014-04-29 14:26 ./
-rw-r--r-- eggert/eggert     0 2014-04-29 14:26 ./foo

0001-tar-do-not-dereference-NULL-pointer-with-remove-file.patch
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