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From: dce@mips.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Tar broken on 4.3BSD?
Message-ID: <1278@quacky.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jan 88 16:01:37 GMT
References: <11091@brl-adm.ARPA>
Reply-To: dce@quacky.UUCP (David Elliott)
Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Sunnyvale, CA
Lines: 35
Posted: Mon Jan 11 11:01:37 1988

In article <11091@brl-adm.ARPA> ted@braggvax.arpa writes:
>While I enjoy being called a fool and a novice as well as the next guy,
>and so deeply appreciate all the helpful responses from the net, the fact
>remains that 4.3 tar is BROKEN.
>
>Now, does anyone have a fix?

Try this (use patch; my line numbers will be different from yours):

*** tar.c.old
--- tar.c
***************
*** 514,520 ****
  			sprintf(dblock.dbuf.chksum, "%6o", checksum());
  			(void) writetape((char *)&dblock);
  		}
! 		sprintf(newparent, "%s/%s", parent, shortname);
  		if (chdir(shortname) < 0) {
  			fflush(stderr);
  			perror(shortname);
--- 514,524 ----
  			sprintf(dblock.dbuf.chksum, "%6o", checksum());
  			(void) writetape((char *)&dblock);
  		}
! 		if (*shortname == '/') {
! 			strcpy(newparent, shortname);
! 		} else {
! 			sprintf(newparent, "%s/%s", parent, shortname);
! 		}
  		if (chdir(shortname) < 0) {
  			fflush(stderr);
  			perror(shortname);

-- 
David Elliott		dce@mips.com  or  {ames,prls,pyramid,decwrl}!mips!dce