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Linus Torvalds wrote: [...] | tar cvf file.tar file file/
I don't like it. Imagine this: $ cat file/perm 040700 drwx------ $ cat file/perm/user/writable 1 $ cat file/perm/uid 0
Do that tar, and you lose the uid. This is an example, and has plenty of flaws. The point is that often there may be files/directories within files/directories.
In order to make this work, you either have to patch tar or split every file/directory into a file/directory pair, recursively, using some sort of mangling. "file" becomes file.f and file.d. Then tar works.
To be honest, I like my "serializer" better. It just feels faster and cleaner.
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