From owner-cvs-all Wed Aug 11 1:17:22 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFB7514F83; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 01:17:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id RAA10697; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 17:47:04 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id RAA48221; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 17:47:04 +0930 (CST) Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 17:47:03 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Bruce Evans Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/tar create.c Message-ID: <19990811174703.X31076@freebie.lemis.com> References: <199908110803.BAA90377@freefall.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <199908110803.BAA90377@freefall.freebsd.org>; from Bruce Evans on Wed, Aug 11, 1999 at 01:03:40AM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Wednesday, 11 August 1999 at 1:03:40 -0700, Bruce Evans wrote: > bde 1999/08/11 01:03:40 PDT > > Modified files: > gnu/usr.bin/tar create.c > Log: > Support 21-bit minor numbers. Avoid wasting a byte in their octal > representation by generating the same format as tar-1.13 (use a single > space as the terminator for 7-digit octal numbers). This is POSIX.1 > conformant (2-byte terminators are just a bug or historical wart in > old versions of gnu tar). All devices created by `MAKEDEV all' except > rsa0.ctl can now be handled by tar(1). How does this effect portability? Can System V tar still understand our tar? Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message