[BusyBox] new tar patch, want to get this out of the way

Glenn McGrath bug1 at optushome.com.au
Wed Oct 3 10:32:14 UTC 2001


On Wed, 3 Oct 2001 09:57:19 -0600
Matt Kraai <kraai at alumni.carnegiemellon.edu> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 05:44:28PM +1000, Glenn McGrath wrote:
> > Ive had these tar changes for a few months now, it would be good to get
it
> > out of the way.
> > 
> > The drop in replacement for tar can be found at
> > http://people.debian.org/~bug1/busybox/tar.0310.c
> 
> There are a number of bugs in this reimplementation:
> 

> The following patch fixes the first three problems.  It doesn't
> address the last three, however.  Care to fix them and resubmit?
>
Yep, will do
 
> As an aside, even my minimal test suite caught the first problem.
> I've posted a new test suite[1] which tests for all but the second
> problem.
> 
Actually i did look around for a test program, i guesss i didnt look hard
enough.


Thanks

Glenn







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