Laurent Blume <[email protected]> wrote: > Quoting Joerg Schilling <[email protected]>: > > The -E flag does not create POSIX compliant extensions. > > Obviously, since POSIX limits the filename to 100 chars... Any tar > command that accepts more can't produce POSIX-compliant archives, > correct?
Not correct, POSIX.1-1988 has this 100-char limitation but is was removed with POSIX.1-2001. > That is made clear in pax(1). > So the question would be rather if full compliance to a standard > defined 20 years ago is required. > Having tools that default to different levels of compliance is > certainly confusing, as the original post proves. Star supports POSIX.1-2001 since summer 2001. Star autodetects any supported format and allows to select a suitable format in create mode. The default format used in create mode is still based on POSIX.1-2001 with extensions. Today, a major reason for not using a POSIX.1-2001 based archive format as default is the exsistence of Sun-tar that is still unable to extract POSIX.1-2001 based archives. Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.illumos.org/m/listinfo/discuss
