[Bug-tar] Re: tar 1.15.90 and multi-volume posix archives

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Juergen Lemke <address@hidden> wrote:

> I tried the cvs version and still does not work; now
> it seems to enter a loop:

Yes, I see. Please apply this patch:

Index: src/buffer.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/tar/tar/src/buffer.c,v
retrieving revision 1.101
diff -p -u -r1.101 buffer.c
--- src/buffer.c        22 May 2006 10:02:23 -0000      1.101
+++ src/buffer.c        23 May 2006 06:46:13 -0000
@@ -874,7 +874,7 @@ change_tape_menu (FILE *read_file)
 {
   char *input_buffer = NULL;
   size_t size = 0;
-  bool stop;
+  bool stop = false;
   
   while (!stop)
     {

Regards,
Sergey