[Bug-tar] Bug or missing feature?

[Joerg Schilling]

star -tv < pax-big-10g.tar.bz2 -pax-ls
star: WARNING: Archive is bzip2 compressed, trying to use the -bz option.
-rw-------   0 jes      glone    10737418240 Jun 15  2002 10g
-rw-r--r--   0 jes      glone          0 Jun 15  2002 file
star: 1048576 blocks + 3072 bytes (total of 10737421312 bytes = 10485763.00k).
9:01.278r 362.380u 166.330s 97% 0M 0+0k 0st 0+0io 0pf+0w

tar-1.13.90/src/tar -tvf  pax-big-10g.tar.bz2 -j
-rw------- jes/glone 4294967295 2002-06-15 23:18:47 10g
8:36.526r 356.180u 141.410s 96% 0M 0+0k 0st 0+0io 0pf+0w


Is there any plan to make GNU tar POSIX.1-2001 compliant or was there just
a plan for a dummy POSIX.1-2001 implementation?


Jörg

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