On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 12:53:33PM -0700, Eric Wilhelm wrote:
> There is also still an issue using gnu tar if you run as root.
> And are there other tar programs?
Unfortunately yes.
If people can point me at some simple tests (sorry, I've not been
following this thread), I can see what these tars do:
NetBSD
FreeBSD
Irix
Solaris
They all appear to be different - at least, they all respond differently
to 'tar --help'. This would tend to indicate to me that the solution is
"use Archive::Tar".
Someone should also test using GNU tar on Cygwin and GNU tar on Win32.
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