On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 12:14:24AM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: > James Carlson <james.d.carlson at Sun.COM> wrote: > > This is the point where there's a problem. > > The problem is that someone at Sun likes to introduce incompatible bahavor > like "... resistance is futile".
I don't see a problem. I see a conflict in utilities of different names. As for the file format, I haven't looked but I suppose that folks who know the ins and outs of tar can tell us whether the proposed extension is interoperable. If it is, then no problem. If it isn't, THEN there would be a big problem. That is, file formats, protocols, these need to be interoperable with other implementations, whether those are integrated or not. CLIs, OTOH, need not match other implementors' choice of command-line switches/options, not even those of other implementations shipped on the same system. Nico --
