Sergey Poznyakoff <g...@gnu.org.ua> skribis: >> FWIW I think it’s very important that tar --sort=name remains the >> default, as it guarantees that archive production is deterministic. > > Actually, the default is not to sort directory entries at all: tar > stores them in the same order as returned by the underlying system calls.
Oh, really? In the order of the readdir calls? Somehow I was under the impression that the order was deterministic. > I don't think changing this will be a good idea. Right. The proposed --sort option is a good idea. Thanks, Ludo’.
