Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 13:21:55 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> Cc: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, audit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pax(1) gzip functionality Message-ID: <20010426132155.C2224@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <200104261823.f3QINUM63571@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>; from brian@Awfulhak.org on Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 07:23:30PM %2B0100 References: <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> <200104261823.f3QINUM63571@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 07:23:30PM +0100, Brian Somers wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 04:42:44PM +0100, Brian Somers wrote: > > > > On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 02:54:25AM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > > > Please review the following code from OpenBSD; it adds -z and -Z > > > > > options to pax(1) to gzip(1) the archives created. > > > > > > > > Sigh. They could have generalized this just a little and supported Bzip2 > > > > at the same time. Please let me know after you commit this so I can do > > > > this. > > > > > > Is this necessary ? What's the problem with using a pipe ? Isn't > > > this the same argument as the xargs one we've just gotten through ? > > > > What's wrong with: > > tar cf - foo | gzip >foo.tar.gz > > gzip -dc foo.tar.gz | tar xf - > > > > Someone deemed them too inconvient for the number of times they are > > invoked. I'm not going to enter that discussion, but _if_ gzip support > > is added, I feel bzip2 support should be added to be orthogonal with > > today's uses. > > Agreed. Fair enough; would be a trivial thing to do. Increased compatibility with tar and cpio seems to have been one of the goals of OpenBSD's work on pax(1); I'm intending to go through and pull over the other bugfixes and extensions too. Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE66INjWry0BWjoQKURAiDNAJ9AzIjMFxEnsv7uRkby+i6nUhGRWgCg5Ykz CrkVQsXGP8XVmWm+Y5NBtgM= =EeAs -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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