On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 01:19:00PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Agree that a committed interface is something that has been documented. > Agree that the current suntar implementation uses an undocumented > archive format in order to implement -T. For this reason, only the > documented feature (-T and the visuble effects) need to be implemented > in star.
Do those "visible effects" include matching the undocumented file format, at least for reading? Typically, things like on-disk filesystem and archive formats fall into the "Committed Private" category - they're not interfaces, but neither can they be changed at will. Otherwise existing files/filesystems/etc. would cease to be usable. -- Keith M Wesolowski "Sir, we're surrounded!" FishWorks "Excellent; we can attack in any direction!" _______________________________________________ opensolaris-code mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code
