Joerg Schilling wrote:
Something that is not documented to the customers is private and may be changed without notice. This is true for the archive format used by suntar -T.
Not at all true. The format of how this works is at least Committed Private. Not all things that are undocumented in a man page are able to be changed incompatibly and without notice.
Star could implement a completely different archive format extension in order to implement -T. Sun would just need to keep a copy of the old suntar under /usr/bin/otar to allow old Trtusted Solaris users to use their old archives.
So make star understand the current format that the OpenSolaris ON consoldiation tar does, and then we can probably start discussing how to make star replace the current ON version. Since you so badly want star to be the OpenSolaris version of tar I think the onus is on you to do that work to star to make it able to replace the current tar.
As others have said, the world is as it is today regardless of whither you or anyone else things that was the best technical direction. Take it as a challenge to make star even better than it is today to make it be able to fully replace the current ON tar.
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