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tar: do not crash with --listed-incremental

Problem reported by Frantisek Hanzlik in
<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/635318> via Kamil Dudka in
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2010-09/msg00066.html>.
I don't understand this code either, but Sergey can take a look at
this patch, and perhaps install a better one, when he has the time.
* src/incremen.c (append_incremental_renames): Don't actually append
anything to DIR if DIR is null.
Paul Eggert 14 years ago
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      src/incremen.c

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src/incremen.c

@@ -890,7 +890,8 @@ append_incremental_renames (struct directory *dir)
   for (dp = dirhead; dp; dp = dp->next)
     store_rename (dp, &stk);
 
-  if (obstack_object_size (&stk) != size)
+  /* FIXME: Is this the right thing to do when DIR is null?  */
+  if (dir && obstack_object_size (&stk) != size)
     {
       obstack_1grow (&stk, 0);
       dumpdir_free (dir->dump);