[Bug-tar] Re: Auto-exclude of cache directories for tar, cpio

[Bryan Ford]

Hi Paul,

On Sunday 01 August 2004 05:44, you wrote:
> I wasn't entirely convinced that we should go with a name that doesn't
> work with older POSIX implementations.

OK, I've posted a message requesting comments about that issue on the xdg list 
on freedesktop.org, which is the main venue for discussion of this proposal.  
If they agree, I'll change the filename to something like "iscache.dir" or 
"cachedir.tag" in the next version, in order to be compatible with not only 
old POSIX but old MS-DOS-based file systems, which other people have 
expressed concern about.

> Also, I didn't see any reply 
> to the comments by Joerg Schilling about existing practice with star
> <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2004-07/msg00028.html>.
> If .mirror and/or .exclude already does the job, and works with older
> filesystems, then why invent a new name?

I wasn't aware of his message - or of the bug-tar list at all in fact - until 
just now when you mentioned it. :)

Thanks,
Bryan