On Sunday 20 September 2009 23:51, Peter Renzland wrote: > It appears ironic that Snow Leopard, "The World's most advanced OS", > has switched to the POSIX tar format, which according to BusyBox > terminology requires "OLDGNU_COMPATIBILITY".
I do not think that POSIX says that there must be trailing space in those fields. It's more likely that whoever was implementing tar for Snow Leopard just "reused" code from some oldish tar which was creating such fields, without much thinking why this old code does that, and whether it makes sense to continue to do that. -- vda _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list busybox@busybox.net http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox