Darren J Moffat <Darren.Moffat at Sun.COM> wrote:
> Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > Darren J Moffat <Darren.Moffat at Sun.COM> wrote:
> >
> >> Torrey McMahon wrote:
> >>> I'm lost as well. Is the issue...
> >>>
> >>> Why is anyone updating tar at all?
> >> Because tar needs to backup your ACLs.
> >
> > This is no reason for doing it in a nonportable and deprecated way.
>
>
> Deprecated by whom ? Which ARC case deprecated this from Solaris ?
It's POSIX.1-2001
> > Sun used an undocumented, non-portable and deprecated method for
> > archiving UFS ACLs.
>
> So what ? Sun's tar isn't your tar.
So you believe that you may request other people to implement undocumented
features of Sun software?
....
> It also doesn't mean we can't move on from where we are, providing that
> what ever we move to can still read archives created with the existing
> code base.
Why did Sun move to somewhere from where it is hard to go to a better and
more standard conforming way although Sun did have the information on how
to do it better in the first attempt?
J?rg
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