At 11:06 Uhr -0800 13.01.2002, Gordon Messmer wrote: >On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Finlay Dobbie wrote: > >> Darwin's tar is BSD tar, and BSD tar behaves differently from GNU tar >> when it comes to long file names. I think it can cope with them, though, >> if the archive is created with BSD tar in the first place. Not sure on >> that one, though. >> >> Goddamn Apple for removing gnutar in OS X (even if it was only in the >> Developer Tools... grrr). > >Yeah... I love how the Darwin system is entirely BSD, except where it's >not. > >Stupid POSIX limited tools anyway.
I am not quite sure if you are ironic or serious. Since you do not add any smileys or anything, I take you serious. The lack of POSIX compatibility in OS X is often enough a portability hindrance. And IMHO, compared to e.g. the GNU variants of many standard tools, the BSD tools are crippled, lack features and only have limited capabilities when it comes to exchange with system that comply to POSIX, which, like it or not, is the de-facto Unix standard. One of the most horrid things about BSD in my opinion is the complete lack of strict file locking. No way for an app to protect its data from being nuked while working on it. Apple is claiming to work towards POSIX, but so far I haven't seen much on that front. But actually, I'd prefer if they would finally fixing some of the really bad errors and shortcomings in the Unix part of OS X (like pthreads or mkdir()). Max -- ----------------------------------------------- Max Horn Software Developer email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> phone: (+49) 6151-494890 _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
