On 12/13/24 01:05, Simon Josefsson wrote:
What is not clear to me is how older implementations handle seeing a --format=posix aka (?) PAX format archive, and which these implementations are.
Solaris 10 /usr/bin/tar will read a PAX format archive as if it contained additional files, whose names are funny and whose contents contain PAX metadata. This was the design goal of the PAX format.
