tls@rek.tjls.com (Thor Lancelot Simon) writes:

> This is a totally silly bug related to the use of 'pax' instead of
> 'tar' on the install floppies.  As it extracts, pax writes out a
> list of file times and permissions into a file in /tmp so it can
> apply them in one pass at the end of the extraction.

What is the reason for doing it this way? Isn't it a pretty bad design
to require temporary storage proportional to the number of files in
the archive?

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