Em 07-05-2014 08:36, Janne Johansson escreveu: > Could be that the standard for tar specifies a max length and that gnu tar > either uses some extension for longer names, or it just doesn't care. > > > > 2014-05-07 11:05 GMT+02:00 Robert Connolly <[email protected]>: > >> Why does BSD tar complain about long file names, and GNU does not? >> >> I'm running amd64. >> >> Thanks >> >> > >From their page: http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_section/Formats.html
They state that the default format is defined at compile time. If I'm not mistaken, if not provided, it defaults to the gnu format. Which, as you found out, does not have the same restrictions on the file name length. They claim that in a future version, the default will be POSIX. Cheers, -- Giancarlo Razzolini GPG: 4096R/77B981BC
