"Garrett D'Amore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> If they have _not_ escaped into Solaris 10, then can I suggest that
> >> Joerg, who's obviously an expert in these details, and who seems to care
> >> passionately about it, figure out how to reimplement the features to be
> >> more compliant with POSIX 2001.1? He can send diffs to the tar folks,
> >>
> >
> > In the spirit of a review, no such code diffs or design figuring would
> > really have needed to have been done. Instead, noting the difference
> > between the two standards and asking the project team (during ARC or
> > design review) to consider the newer standard would have been fair.
> >
>
> Right. But I was trying to look forward rather than backwards. But its
> moot, since the changes are now in the field. Sorry, Joerg, guess
> you'll have to update star if you want to remain compatible.
Well, I found a solution: as many of the Sun tar features are undocumented,
we just rename /usr/bin/tar to /usr/bin/otar at the same time /usr/bin/tar
becomes a link to /usr/bin/star. As Sun customers cannot rely in undocumented
features, star would only need to implelent compatibility to everything that
was documented in the public on June 25th 2007 in oder to get the permission
to replace the current /usr/bin/tar
/usr/bin/otar would need to stay for a while until no Sun customer is interested
in these undocumented features anymore.
Jörg
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