"Garrett D'Amore" <gdamore at sun.com> wrote:
> > What do you understand by pax(1)?
> >
> > The pax binary in /usr/bin on Solaris is closed source and it makes no
> > sense to
> > even think about enhancing it.
> >
>
> That doesn't preclude integrating an alternate implementation, though.
> (And this may be desirable for a number of reasons.) I know of at
> *least* two possible such implementations, including yours.
I know of at least 5 different implementations, including mine. It would be a
nice idea to think about how to deal with this if we did like to make all of
them available on OpenSolaris.
BTW: Glenn Fowler mentioned "star wars", but pax(1) was the peace after the
"tar wars" to the beginning of the 90s.
J?rg
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