Alan Coopersmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > The POSIX.1-2001 tar extensions are a clean method that _definitely_ should
> > be
> > used for all new features. As this was not done for the ZFS enhancements as
> > well for the "Trusted Extensions", something did go massively wrong. Since
> > the
> > year 2001, there is no reson to continue to use deprecated POSIX.1-1988
> > methods
> > anymore.
>
> Much of the Trusted Extensions work was integrating work done long before 2001
> in the Trusted Solaris product line. The case materials note that the tar
> extensions were carried forward from Trusted Solaris 2.5.1 & Trusted Solaris
> 8,
> and preserve backwards compatibility with the Trusted Solaris 8
> implementation.
It was not in the Sun tar.c until recently and even if it has been created
earlier (e.g. with Trusted Solaris 8), using POSIX.1-1988 based enhancements
was
wrong.
Jörg
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