Enrico Maria Crisostomo <[email protected]> wrote: > For as rare as such an event could be, I was affected by this: more > than once GNU tar couldn't extract it's own files while fortunately > pax could. I had to back up some big directories with GNU tar on > Solaris 10 and sometimes it happened that tar exited with exit status > 0 doing nothing. Archives were created with the E flag. This was truss
While GNU tar really sometimes is unable to extract it's own archives, your problem has a different reason: You tried to unpack an archives creates by Sun tar that includes Sun specific extensions to the standard. Star is able to unpack this archive, GNU tar is not. Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
