Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 11:08:35 -0400 From: Barney Wolff <barney@tp.databus.com> To: Andrey Alekseyev <uitm@zenon.net> Cc: Barney Wolff <barney@tp.databus.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: minor annoyances Message-ID: <20020821150835.GA18267@tp.databus.com> In-Reply-To: <200208210636.g7L6aYC23456@uitm.zenon.net> References: <20020820220133.GA10260@tp.databus.com> <200208210636.g7L6aYC23456@uitm.zenon.net>
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The new tar does not ignore the -T. I tried your example and saw the files in t.lst appear twice in t.tgz, once from the -T and again as ./<filename> from the dot. The new behavior is arguably correct. I wish there could always be a way to satisfy POLA, portability and correctness simultaneously. Alas, sometimes life is not that kind. How many years did the error of treating an all-zeroes host part of an IP address as broadcast persist? Various stacks had a setting to accomodate that error for over a decade, and may still. On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 10:36:34AM +0400, Andrey Alekseyev wrote: > > Re tar, that dot at the end is saying back up the whole directory. > > Well, yes. I apologize, I should be a bug fixed later in tar. > Version 1.11.2 (which I believe was the previous tar shipped with > FreeBSD) just ignores the trailing dot while v1.13.25 picks it up > and uses it, ignoring -T option. -- Barney Wolff I'm available by contract or FT: http://www.databus.com/bwresume.pdf To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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