Stroller <[email protected]> wrote: > On 1 May 2009, at 10:26, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > ... > > Does gnu tar really did copy star behavior and now allows to use -C > > in extract > > mode? > > Surely gtar should not emulate star's behaviour? Surely it is only > correct to emulate the behaviour of some original Unix tar (without > prefix, s- or g- or otherwise), or follow the specifications of some > standards document?
If gnu tsr would follow the specifications from the Single UNIX specification http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xcu/tar.html there would be less problems ;-) 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
