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Re: [Bug-tar] Tar cheats when directed to /dev/null
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Eric Blake |
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Re: [Bug-tar] Tar cheats when directed to /dev/null |
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Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:22:04 -0600 |
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On 03/25/2010 11:53 AM, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:
>> It doesn't really
>> matter how long it has been doing it for; wrong is wrong.
>
> Perhaps, it is or it is not. It just means I cannot all of a sudden
> change this default just because one of the usere deems it wrong.
To prove that this is wrong, you would have to point to a place in the
POSIX specification that forbids similar behavior for pax(1); I cannot
find such text. Lacking proof that it is wrong, I agree with Sergey's
stance that it matches the documentation, and that changing it now would
be a mistake.
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Eric Blake address@hidden +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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- Re: [Bug-tar] Tar cheats when directed to /dev/null, (continued)
- Re: [Bug-tar] Tar cheats when directed to /dev/null, Sergey Poznyakoff, 2010/03/25
- Re: [Bug-tar] Tar cheats when directed to /dev/null,
Eric Blake <=
- Re: [Bug-tar] Tar cheats when directed to /dev/null, Phillip Susi, 2010/03/25
- Re: [Bug-tar] Tar cheats when directed to /dev/null, Andreas Dilger, 2010/03/26
- Re: [Bug-tar] Tar cheats when directed to /dev/null, Phillip Susi, 2010/03/26
- Re: [Bug-tar] Tar cheats when directed to /dev/null, Sergey Poznyakoff, 2010/03/26