Re: Stak dump with tar.[bz2/gz] files (Cygwin)

[Angelo Graziosi]

The patch proposed here

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-06/msg00839.html

seems to solve this bug!

(Now, with tar files, there is only the annoying bug #1655)


Many thanks,
      Angelo.


Angelo Graziosi ha scritto:
> I want to flag that current CVS 23.0.60 of Emacs stack dumps when
> loading tar.[bz2/gz] files, on Cygwin.
>
> This happens with simple file like this
>
> $ cat hello.c
> /* hello.c */
> #include <stdio.h>
>
> int main()
> {
>    printf("Hello World\n");
> }
>
> $ tar -cjf hello.tar.bz2 hello.c
>
> $ emacs -Q&
> C-x C-f /tmp/hello.tar.bz2 RET
>
> and after bunzipping it stack dumps
>
> $
> [2]+  Aborted                 (core dumped) emacs -Q
>
>
> If the file is a simple .tar (hello.tar):
>
> $ emacs -Q&
> C-x C-f /tmp/hello.tar RET
>
> the file is loaded BUT...
>
> ...BUT closing it (click on the 'x' of the tool-bar) and reloading
>
> C-x C-f /tmp/hello.tar RET
>
> still aborts:
>
> $
> [1]+  Aborted                 (core dumped) emacs -Q
>
>
> The last useful CVS which works fine with tar files is that
>
> cvs ... -D "27 May 2008 12:00"
>
> Instead, the first which does NOT work is -D "28 May 2008 12:00".
>
> I haven't searched between these two dates (hours).
>
>  From the lisp/ChangeLog I see  that about May 27 there was several 
> changes to tar mode.
>
>
> Cheers,
>    Angelo.