Re: [Bug-tar] [PATCH] add --ignore-missing to ignore missing input files

[Joerg Schilling]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:

>> There are quite a lot of things that find can, but tar cannot do.

>Absolutely!  But I don't see why this one in particular is one of them.

>In the longer run, Joerg's suggestion of using libfind, or something like
>that, may be a better one -- then 'tar' could do anything that 'find' can
>do, without further ado.  However, libfind (or whatever) would have to be
>audited for security holes....

What "holes" do you expect?

Besides that libfind has been audited, libfind is in use since 6 years in OSS 
projects and nobody did so far complain.

Note that I wrote "sfind" in 2004 in less than a week, but it took more than 2 
years to convert it into a clean library that is reentrant and has no memory 
leakage.

Jörg

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