From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Aug 21 8: 8:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BA7A37B400 for ; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 08:08:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tp.databus.com (p70-227.acedsl.com [66.114.70.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BD4E43E65 for ; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 08:08:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from barney@databus.com) Received: from databus.com (localhost.databus.com [127.0.0.1]) by tp.databus.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g7LF8as8018457; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 11:08:36 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from barney@databus.com) Received: (from barney@localhost) by databus.com (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g7LF8ZnX018456; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 11:08:35 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 11:08:35 -0400 From: Barney Wolff To: Andrey Alekseyev Cc: Barney Wolff , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: minor annoyances Message-ID: <20020821150835.GA18267@tp.databus.com> References: <20020820220133.GA10260@tp.databus.com> <200208210636.g7L6aYC23456@uitm.zenon.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200208210636.g7L6aYC23456@uitm.zenon.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 ./ 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