Re: tar on AIX with remote tape

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello,
        thank you very much for your bug report.

On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 10:55:41AM +0100, Joerg Lemke wrote:
> #rtapelib.c, line 415
>    ...
>     remote_shell_basename = base_name (remote_shell);
>     if (remote_shell_basename)
>       remote_shell_basename++;
>     else
>       remote_shell_basename = remote_shell;
>    ...
> 
> remote_shell_basename is set to "emsh" and then passed to
> remsh as argv[0]. Hence the error message "host emsh not found"
> 
> I just removed the whole if-else for an interim solution, because
> I cannot see the meaning of the ++.

It seems that Paul Eggert, the maintainer of tar, has done the same in
the development branch of tar:

        * src/rtapelib.c (rmt_open__):
        Remove typo that caused us to omit the first char
        of the basename.

Try ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/tar/tar-1.13.25.tar.gz if you please.

Stepan Kasal