[12662] in Athena Bugs
decmips 7.7G: tar
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (brlewis@MIT.EDU)
Mon Sep 26 15:28:36 1994
From: brlewis@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 94 15:28:25 -0400
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Cc: "J. Robert Fricke" <fricke@MIT.EDU>
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System name: joy
Type and version: KN02ca 7.7G (1 update(s) to same version)
Display type: PMAG-DV
The man page for tar says:
The tape archiver command, tar, saves and restores multiple files to and
from a single archive. The default archive device is /dev/rmt0h, but
any file or device may be requested through the use of options.
But /bin/tar uses /dev/rmt8 as the default device. Apparently it was
built from /source/athena/bin/tar.c for this release, but not so for
previous releases:
/afs/rel-eng.athena.mit.edu/system/@sys/srvd.76/bin% strings tar | grep /dev
/dev/rmt0h
A user complained in OLC about the change in behavior.
Either the new behavior should be documented, or we should revert to the
old behavior.
