Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 11:43:39 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NEW TAR Message-ID: <20040717184339.GA64464@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <40F963D8.6010201@freebsd.org> References: <40F963D8.6010201@freebsd.org>
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--6TrnltStXW4iwmi0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 10:37:28AM -0700, Tim Kientzle wrote: > What are the differences? > * Portability: gtar is portable to many different Unix and non-Unix > systems. bsdtar supports standard file formats that are widely > supported by other implementations. There are efforts to port > bsdtar to other platforms. * Less known bugginess: gtar on sparc64 has sporadic problems, e.g. attempting to use all available VM. bsdtar doesn't have obvious problems on other FreeBSD architectures. Kris --6TrnltStXW4iwmi0 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFA+XNbWry0BWjoQKURAm25AKCpf3/aHicQ7774z0oZxR7YVIr9EQCfWYQj fZQo0xv4FLFgpxERcNakrRA= =uWc0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --6TrnltStXW4iwmi0--
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