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Re: [Bug-tar] Re: AMTAR brokenness
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Alexandre Duret-Lutz |
Subject: |
Re: [Bug-tar] Re: AMTAR brokenness |
Date: |
19 Apr 2004 11:43:49 +0200 |
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>>> "Paul" == Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:
Paul> Alexandre Duret-Lutz <address@hidden> writes:
>> address@hidden selects the new pax format defined by POSIX
>> +1003.1-2001. It supports filenames with up to 65535 characters.
Paul> Hmm, where did that "65535" come from? I don't know of any limit of
Paul> 65535 bytes (presumably you meant bytes, not characters) that is
Paul> required by POSIX.
I read that in the Heirloom pax manpage
http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/man/pax.1.html
Maybe its maintainer can enlighten us.
Paul> Also, there are moves to change the pax format (so far in an
Paul> upward-compatible way, but you never know....). Perhaps you should
Paul> mention that "tar-pax" is intended to be the most recent version of
Paul> the pax interchange format, not necessarily the 2001 version. (This
Paul> problem probably afflicts the GNU tar documentation as well....)
Will do.
>> + cpio)
>> + am__tar='find "$$tardir" -print | cpio -H $1 -L -o'
>> + am__tar_='find "$tardir" -print | cpio -H $1 -L -o'
>> + am__untar='cpio -i'
Paul> Wouldn't it be safer to use 'cpio -H tar -i' rather than 'cpio -i'?
Paul> The latter autodetects, but I worry that autodetection isn't infallible.
Paul> (I don't know about cpio to be sure here.)
It shouldn't hurt.
--
Alexandre Duret-Lutz
- Re: [Bug-tar] Re: AMTAR brokenness, (continued)
- Re: [Bug-tar] Re: AMTAR brokenness, Paul Eggert, 2004/04/17
- Re: [Bug-tar] Re: AMTAR brokenness, Alexandre Duret-Lutz, 2004/04/17
- Re: [Bug-tar] Re: AMTAR brokenness, Paul Eggert, 2004/04/18
- Re: [Bug-tar] Re: AMTAR brokenness, Sergey Poznyakoff, 2004/04/18
- Re: [Bug-tar] Re: AMTAR brokenness, Roger Leigh, 2004/04/18
- Re: [Bug-tar] Re: AMTAR brokenness, Alexandre Duret-Lutz, 2004/04/18
- Re: [Bug-tar] Re: AMTAR brokenness, Eric Sunshine, 2004/04/18
- Re: [Bug-tar] Re: AMTAR brokenness, Paul Eggert, 2004/04/19
- Re: [Bug-tar] Re: AMTAR brokenness,
Alexandre Duret-Lutz <=
- Re: [Bug-tar] Re: AMTAR brokenness, Gunnar Ritter, 2004/04/19
- Re: [Bug-tar] Re: AMTAR brokenness, Alexandre Duret-Lutz, 2004/04/19
- Re: [Bug-tar] Re: AMTAR brokenness, Sergey Poznyakoff, 2004/04/19
- Re: [Bug-tar] Re: AMTAR brokenness, Alexandre Duret-Lutz, 2004/04/19
- Re: [Bug-tar] Re: AMTAR brokenness, Sergey Poznyakoff, 2004/04/19
- Re: AMTAR brokenness, Alexandre Duret-Lutz, 2004/04/20
- Re: AMTAR brokenness, Paul Eggert, 2004/04/20
- Re: AMTAR brokenness, Alexandre Duret-Lutz, 2004/04/23
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- Re: [Bug-tar] Re: AMTAR brokenness, Alexandre Duret-Lutz, 2004/04/19
Re: [Bug-tar] Re: AMTAR brokenness, Sergey Poznyakoff, 2004/04/16