From: bboerner@novell.com (Brendan B. Boerner) Subject: Re: patch to Pax v1.2 Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1992 16:26:46 GMT
In article <1992Sep15.180926.2993@muddcs.claremont.edu> jwinstea@fenris.claremont.edu (Jim Winstead Jr.) writes:
>Yes, this problem had been reported before, but I never really had the
>time to experiment with Pax enough to find the bug. I hope you fixed
>it. :) (I haven't recompiled pax to check it yet....)
Yes, I think the problem was just that there was no check for write()
returning 0.
>It's interesting to note that most of the chages in your patch were to
>bring pax up to POSIX conformance rather than making it compilable on
>a Linux system. :)
Well, I'm picky about compiler warning messages so when I saw it
complaining about the tstamp stuff, I made the changes and surrounded
it with #idef LINUX #endif. Wasn't aware they were POSIX. Sez
something about Linux/GCC I think... :-)
Later,
Brendan
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