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From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit:  src/gnu/usr.bin/tar extract.c rtapelib.c
To: joerg@freefall.freebsd.org (Joerg Wunsch)
Date: Sun, 3 Nov 1996 15:55:02 +0100 (MET)
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Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
In-Reply-To: <199611031447.GAA27528@freefall.freebsd.org> from Joerg Wunsch at "Nov 3, 96 06:47:54 am"
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As Joerg Wunsch wrote:

>   Modified:    gnu/usr.bin/tar  extract.c rtapelib.c
>   Log:
>   Print out permissions that could not be re-established using 0%o
>   instead of decimal.  Also, don't use the `l' modifier for something
>   that has just been cast to `int' anyway.

Probably also a 2.2 candidate.

>   Remove various bogus pathnames to look up rsh(1) at.  Our rsh is in
>   /usr/bin, but never in /usr/usb, nor would it ever be called remsh...
>   Also, if it hasn't been found there, use execlp() to look it up.  the
>   latter is required for `weird' environments like a fixit floppy where
>   the regular /usr/bin hiearrchy is not avaiable.

This too, since it badly broke the remote device specification on the
fixit floppy, without any chance to correct this from there (other
than piping explicitly through rsh).

-- 
cheers, J"org

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