From: Giuseppe Scrivano <[email protected]> > thanks to have tested it, indeed it was working in a different way. I > don't think this feature had any user before, considering how broken it > is.
I assumed that the VMS details were the only remaining mystery, so all I did was look at the generated file names (on VMS), not what was in the files, so almost anything could have happened, and I might not have noticed it. I also assumed that the patch was based on something newer than the original 1.14 source kit I was using, so, even if I had noticed a problem, I probably would not have been suspicious. For example, around here, nothing worked right until I made this change: ALP $ gdiff src/options.h_orig src/options.h 169c169 < bool backups; /* Are numeric backups made? */ --- > int backups; /* Are numeric backups made? */ When "backups" can be only zero or one, saying "--backups=4" does not have the desired effect. If someone lets me know when the next "tar" kit appears, then I might be able to do a little more testing (with a little more care). SMS.
