On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 02:36:22PM -0400, Roland McGrath wrote: > > zlib: EIO from tar? Wat's that? And how does this rcmd come into the game? > > What is rcmd? This looks very suspicious. > > rcmd is the libc function that does the client side of the rsh protocol. > tar uses this for rmt. If you do "tar -f host:/dev/rmt0" then tar uses > rcmd to do "rsh host /etc/rmt /dev/rmt0". So if you are using a file name > with a colon in it, that could explain it. Use --force-local to avoid that.
Yup, that's another incarnation of the colon in absolute path because of epoch issue. The version number of zlib1g is 1:1.1.3-12 I will file a bug report. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de
