I said:
> my guess is John Gilmore originally created gnu tar from
> reading of the man page. If so, that would explain the
> difference. I don't have the V7 sources so can't check but
> given that companies with the Unix licence (and the orig.
> sources) all do the same I believe the V7 man pag
< said:
> If it were upto me I'd choose what POSIX says.
POSIX says to use pax(1). There is no `tar' in POSIX. (There is,
unfortunately, a cpio(1) in POSIX.)
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> Well, OK, now I am really confused. So what should we be bound to? To
> the POLA (old GNU tar in 4.6-release and downward was not fully
> preserving permissions unless -p is specified, even when invoked by
> root)? Or to what other systems do? Bruce, what do you think?
Okay, I did some more res
On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> Bakul Shah wrote:
> >
> > My recollection matches what Bruce says (and I have been
> > using unix since when version 7 was the latest and greatest).
> > At least the SUN OS 5.6 man page I could locate online says
> > this:
> >
> > The o function modifie
On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> >
> > Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> > >
> > > Bruce Evans wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Revs.1.2-1.3 of tar/src/extract.c break pkg_add (not to mention probably
> > > > thousands of user scripts that are no more careful than pkg_add) in
> > > >
Bakul Shah wrote:
>
> My recollection matches what Bruce says (and I have been
> using unix since when version 7 was the latest and greatest).
> At least the SUN OS 5.6 man page I could locate online says
> this:
>
> The o function modifier is only valid with the x function. p
> Restore the na
My recollection matches what Bruce says (and I have been
using unix since when version 7 was the latest and greatest).
At least the SUN OS 5.6 man page I could locate online says
this:
The o function modifier is only valid with the x function. p
Restore the named files to their original modes,
Maxim Sobolev wrote:
>
> Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> >
> > Bruce Evans wrote:
> > >
> > > Revs.1.2-1.3 of tar/src/extract.c break pkg_add (not to mention probably
> > > thousands of user scripts that are no more careful than pkg_add) in
> > > -current and RELENG_4:
> >
> > Are you sure? My own investi
Maxim Sobolev wrote:
>
> Bruce Evans wrote:
> >
> > Revs.1.2-1.3 of tar/src/extract.c break pkg_add (not to mention probably
> > thousands of user scripts that are no more careful than pkg_add) in
> > -current and RELENG_4:
>
> Are you sure? My own investigation at the time of the commit showed
Bruce Evans wrote:
>
> Revs.1.2-1.3 of tar/src/extract.c break pkg_add (not to mention probably
> thousands of user scripts that are no more careful than pkg_add) in
> -current and RELENG_4:
Are you sure? My own investigation at the time of the commit showed
that old tar shipped with FreeBSD, wa
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