Re: [Bug-tar] make your tar archive even more anonymous

[Denis Excoffier]

On Fri, Jul 06, 2012 at 01:31:31PM +0200, Denis Excoffier wrote:
>> 
>> To be myself honest also, i have sometimes to deliver directories that
>> contain about 50000 files, that i would like sorted. In any case, i
>> prefer to rely on a single additional option on my tar command line (in
>> TAR_OPTIONS in this case) than on a complex and error-prone find
>> incantation. If not provided directly (as an option) or indirectly
>> (by just replacing 100 with 50000 in the code) by
>> tar, i feel myself capable to insert some dirty malloc/qsort/free
>> somewhere in tar/src/create.c, not far where --no-recursion is
>> actually acting.
>> 

Please find attached a naive implementation of
--sort-directory-entries (patch against tar-1.26). Any comments?

Regards,

Denis Excoffier.

sort-directory.patch
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