On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 12:34:07AM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: > "Hugh McIntyre" <lists at mcintyreweb.com> wrote: > > I hesitate to get involved in this discussion, but... > > > > > If interface stability is really important for OpenSolaris, then tar(1), > > > cpio(1) and pax(1) cannot implement an incomatible way of handling the -/ > > > option. The option -/ (introduced in 1994) has the following meaning: > > > > > > -/ Don't strip leading slashes from file names ... > > > > It looks like GNU tar uses a different option for this behaviour: > > > > -P, --absolute-paths > > don't strip leading `/'s from file names > > If GNU tar did not try to be incompatible to star, star could be compatible > to > GNU tar.
But there it is. These are programs with so many options and such long histories that we just can't expect that there will be no conflicts in choice of option letters, much less exact semantics. Nico --
