Subject: re: CVS commit: basesrc/bin/pax
To: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
List: source-changes
Date: 10/16/2002 00:59:19
On Oct 16, 2:45pm, mrg@eterna.com.au (matthew green) wrote:
-- Subject: re: CVS commit: basesrc/bin/pax
|
| Log Message:
| Support gnu long filename extensions by default for tar on create, list, and
| extract. We now generate GNU tar archives by default ("ustar ^@" instead of
| "ustar^@00"). GNU extensions can be disabled with --strict.
|
| do we have to do this? can't we please only use it when necessary?
Well, it is not easy to do, because we don't know if we are going to need
a long link unless we examine all the files in the archive.
| XXX: long symlinks untested.
|
| these used to work a few years ago.
yes, and they will still work for reading. it is writing that I have not
tested.
christos