Gary Winiger <gww at eng.sun.com> wrote:
> > Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > > Keep in mind that it is not acceptable to have archive enhancements that
> > > are not
> > > compatible with already existing archive format enhancements from other
> > > programs. See:
> > >
> > > http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/man/star/star.4.html
> > >
> > Why is this unacceptable?
> >
> > This becomes close to a requirement for appropriate programs, which
> > are in Solaris. For programs sitting in some arbitrary server or ~home
> > its nothing more than a nice thing for significant programs, for some
> > very arbitrary definition of "significant". Since this is nothing more
> > than a "nice thing", one should be "nice" rather than yelling.
>
>
> Unless I'm off base, I think there's a misunderstanding by
> the question of what's happening. Various archive programs
> have been able to archive a files attribute files since attribute
> files were introduced. The -/ option selects those attribute files
> that include system attributes. It is analgous to -@ in that
> respect.
Before Don did get the approval to introduce -/ for ls(1) he promised _not_
to do the same for tar(1).
Let us follow him and deny the approval for this case that would definitely
introduce CLI incompatibilities.
J?rg
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