On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 10:22:34PM +0200, Marco Gerards wrote: > I wrote a patch for GNU tar to support passive translators.
Wow. This is definitely going in the right direction. > To add translators to a tar file you have to use the "-a" switch. It > doesn't add symlinks, devices and fifos. I guess that is the behaviour > we want. In effect, yes. I am not quite sure on tar's internal logic, but it appeared to me when I looked at it a long time ago, it was easy to check for translators before for everything else (fifos, symlinks etc). Then you can use the Hurd convention of "/hurd/symlink" etc to detect symlinks. This is better because many translators disguise as device files or fifos, although they aren't. So, we want to treat real symlinks (/hurd/symlink) as symlinks, etc, but any other translator settings as they are. We don't want to use the standard Unix test for this (testing the stat mode bits), but instead use the translator string. This is more accurate. This should not be much harder to implement, and will also make it easier to fine-tune the recursive behaviour later. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann The Hurd http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de/ _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
