On Jan 17, 2009, at 4:29 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote: > A serious problem with GNU tar is that it is unreliable and in a > signficant > number of cases is unable to read back it's own archives.
I've been using tar on linux since about 1996 and I've never had such a failure, nor have I ever heard of anyone having one. I'm not saying that it can't happen, I'm just saying that the experience of the community is that's an extremely reliable tool. > Roughly at the same time as GNU tar introduced -z, star introduced > auto-decompression. Why do you like to know about this detail if the > tar > implementation could to this for you automagically based on the > compression > header magic numbers? My fingers are used to typing "tar -xzf" and as long as I don't get any stupid error messages and the data is unpacked, I'm happy. -T _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
