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Date:      Fri, 04 May 2007 14:15:45 +0200
From:      Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>
To:        Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org>
Cc:        cvs-src@freebsd.org, Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/tar write.c
Message-ID:  <20070504141545.8mis6w94gocw8408@webmail.leidinger.net>
In-Reply-To: <463A19D6.6070400@freebsd.org>
References:  <200705030433.l434XBvW005733@repoman.freebsd.org> <46397035.7000606@freebsd.org> <463A19D6.6070400@freebsd.org>

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Quoting Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> (from Thu, 03 May 2007  
10:20:22 -0700):

> Tim Kientzle wrote:
>> I wonder if it would be simpler to set non-zero exit only
>> if this is the first path returned from tree_next() (which
>> should be the path given on the command line).  That
>> would avoid the headache of having to perform a textual
>> path comparison.
>>
>> A simple flag to indicate if this is the first time
>> through the loop should suffice, I think.
>
> Hmm... I considered this, but I wasn't sure if there were any edge
> cases where the first path returned by tree_next might not be the
> path passed to tree_open; so I decided to take the route which I
> knew would always work.

What if someone gives more than one path to tar?

Bye,
Alexander.

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