more on broken smbclient tar behaviour
Ronan Waide
waider at waider.ie
Fri Apr 4 14:22:01 GMT 2003
On April 4, waider at waider.ie said:
> * When it's trying to snag the filename from the arglist, it's using
> argv[Optind]. Optind is 1 when this code runs, meaning the sharename
> is taken to be the tarfile name. This is the bug I originally
> mentioned.
further to this: the usage message outright lies to you. It suggests
putting the sharename at the end of the parameter list, at which point
smbclient tries to treat the tarfile filename as the sharename.
Cheers,
Waider.
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