Hi, Mats Wichmann wrote on Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 12:30:09PM -0700:
> There was some effort to try to converge tar and cpio into pax, such > that the requirements would be "one required tool, correctly handles > both file formats". I don't think that really got as much traction > as the people who named it thought it would. For what it's worth, /bin/pax, /bin/tar and /bin/cpio have been hard links to the same statically linked executable (such that they work even when /usr is not mounted and ld.so is broken) since 1997 on OpenBSD. So anybody who wants to use that code is free to grab it here, of course with a GPL-compatible license (3-clause BSD): http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/bin/pax/ Yours, Ingo _______________________________________________ fhs-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/fhs-discuss
