On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, Uwe Dippel wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 14:50:30 +0100, Alf Schlichting wrote:
>
> > The following diff makes the ark archiver from kdeutils3 use gtar instead
> > of
> > OpenBSDs native tar(1).
>
> Almost OT:
> OpenBSD's tar also fails on longer path/filenames (haven't checked
> properly; I'd guess around 100+ characters).
> Replacing (in my case hardcoded) tar with gtar results in proper archives.
> (OpenBSD 3.8, in case someone asked)
It depends on what you call "proper". POSIX does not define how to
handle long file names (total length > 250 chars, or basename > 100).
You're just using a gnu extension. Gnu tar archives are not portable.
When do you want to encounter that? ONn archive build or archive extract?
-Otto
