From owner-freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 25 21:10:01 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-standards@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92F38A83 for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2012 21:10:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.135]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 513E78FC17 for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2012 21:10:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q9PLA11A004562 for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2012 21:10:01 GMT (envelope-from gnats@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) id q9PLA1V7004561; Thu, 25 Oct 2012 21:10:01 GMT (envelope-from gnats) Resent-Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 21:10:01 GMT Resent-Message-Id: <201210252110.q9PLA1V7004561@freefall.freebsd.org> Resent-From: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org (GNATS Filer) Resent-To: freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.org Resent-Reply-To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, "Nathan T. Weeks" Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E27E9BC for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2012 21:02:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nobody@FreeBSD.org) Received: from red.freebsd.org (red.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::22]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3BD38FC12 for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2012 21:02:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from red.freebsd.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by red.freebsd.org (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q9PL2W9r085872 for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2012 21:02:32 GMT (envelope-from nobody@red.freebsd.org) Received: (from nobody@localhost) by red.freebsd.org (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) id q9PL2Wxt085871; Thu, 25 Oct 2012 21:02:32 GMT (envelope-from nobody) Message-Id: <201210252102.q9PL2Wxt085871@red.freebsd.org> Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 21:02:32 GMT From: "Nathan T. Weeks" To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org X-Send-Pr-Version: www-3.1 Subject: standards/173087: pax(1) does not support the pax interchange format X-BeenThere: freebsd-standards@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Standards compliance List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 21:10:01 -0000 >Number: 173087 >Category: standards >Synopsis: pax(1) does not support the pax interchange format >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-standards >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Thu Oct 25 21:10:00 UTC 2012 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Nathan T. Weeks >Release: 9.0 >Organization: USDA-ARS >Environment: FreeBSD hostname.private 9.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE #0: Tue Jan 3 07:46:30 UTC 2012 root@farrell.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 >Description: pax(1) does not support the pax interchange format. Support is both useful (e.g., to get around the 8GB file size limit of the ustar interchange format) and required for conformance with SUSv3/SUSv4. >How-To-Repeat: $ pax -x pax pax: Unknown -x format: pax pax: Known -x formats are: bcpio cpio sv4cpio sv4crc tar ustar .. >Fix: Ideally, use libarchive(3); although it would probably be more straightforward to implement the (partial) pax interchange support from Mac OS X pax: http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/file_cmds/file_cmds-220.7/pax/pax_format.c >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: