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Re: tarsnap crashing bug

To: tarsnap users <tarsnap-users@tarsnap.com>
Subject: Re: tarsnap crashing bug
From: Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 17:30:39 -0700
In-reply-to: <51EE46C9.9060503@freebsd.org>
References: <51EE46C9.9060503@freebsd.org>

On 07/23/13 02:03, Colin Percival wrote:
> About 24 hours ago a Tarsnap user reported a bug in version 1.0.34 of the
> Tarsnap client which was causing it to crash, apparently related to the
> handling of interruptions in network connectivity.  I have just found and
> fixed a bug which is consistent with the reported crash; but I'd like to
> rule out the possibility that there is another bug I have yet to find.

Update: Testing has confirmed that my bug fix does eliminate the crash, so
(unless someone jumps in with a new bug report very soon) I'm going to
release tarsnap 1.0.35 with this fix in about 24 hours.

-- 
Colin Percival
Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve
Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid

References:
- tarsnap crashing bug
  - From: Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org>

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