"Shawn Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 27/06/07, Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > In the special case of Sun's tar implementation, the biggest problem is that
> > the documentation is incomplete and that there are many completely
> > undocumented
> > features. As I mentioned already, it would help if we agree on that the
> > current
> > /usr/bin/tar may be replaced by star without the need to implement features
> > that are either not documented (in public) at all or that have no
> > documentation
> > for the related archive format on June 25th 2007.
>
> I don't see that happening Joerg. As several engineers have already
> tried to tell you, Sun is in a position where they are required to
> continue to support certain functionality.
This is a problem that needs to be solved instead of continuing with the
problem. Note that Solaris did never have this code in sun tar. For Solaris
this code is _new_ code that needs to follow the rules of today.
The problem is not a problem of Solaris users but a problem of former
"Trusted Solaris" users.
This is why I did make the proposal to rename the current binary to
/usr/bin/otar. This would allow to have follow the rules of today while
at the same time giving support for former "Trusted Solaris" users to read
their archives.
Jörg
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