From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 10 21:22:49 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 555A8106566B for ; Tue, 10 Aug 2010 21:22:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ey0-f182.google.com (mail-ey0-f182.google.com [209.85.215.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D88008FC18 for ; Tue, 10 Aug 2010 21:22:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eyh6 with SMTP id 6so4773585eyh.13 for ; Tue, 10 Aug 2010 14:22:47 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=PU/HVa0vClmaOPTj8t9VwcidGeLuuWUz5wqQ6Sa5TJ4=; b=uQCXoFxUgEk9FTVE77HzlszF/K1YY33MIXHj3pp5NJrnjjYDSrDqmhKN+L69fwkzpo mv7kd9n6Ekw/WJ9skqN1e1gvCh818V6/8zNnSFy6dMxNwAwu54rs9X6BxeUN6HxakGKO GBK5xWe7mDE/CyD8nBHfV9uOviUs2xInPNPuU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=gRl5SbFMjJIY3CIuZde0mFYf8WC0c0Dp1u9TcCR9WH9lY0XXaQmqxDMovMngSJ3/P7 SmVdcO2DJbaF+Zbhx6KzO0UUR/eFzxdX8Sl7mWWWqNKJBDqWOUXwwweGrJBQ9q3K3UR6 GXp9CSeqE/Xwen9sqW/DLEmGBXk+rBBtsdIDo= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.231.26 with SMTP id k26mr15688615weq.3.1281475367342; Tue, 10 Aug 2010 14:22:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.35.139 with HTTP; Tue, 10 Aug 2010 14:22:47 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20100809180022.GA33596@freebsd.org> References: <20100809180022.GA33596@freebsd.org> Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:22:47 -0400 Message-ID: From: "illoai@gmail.com" To: Alexander Best Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: chflags(1) unaware utilties X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 21:22:49 -0000 On 9 August 2010 14:00, Alexander Best wrote: > hi there, > > chflags(1) mentions that a few utilities including pax(1) aren't chflags aware yet. is there a list of all those utilties available somewhere? > also: i don't quite understand why this is in the BUGS section of chflags(1) and not in the pax(1) manual itself [1]. this doesn't seem very logical, since the bug doesn't exist in chflags, but in pax not supporting chflags. > so if someone decides to use pax and wants to know if there are any problem with it, there's no way for the average user to stumble upon the fact that chflags isn't supported in pax. > > in fact the pax(1) manual states that `pax -p e` will "preserve everything". this is plain wrong! > > cheers. > alex > > [1] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=docs/135516 > AFIK, pax is a POSIX thing, and as such working correctly or sanely would violate its posix nature. (POSIX is an anagram of "Pox? Si!") Is cpio chflags-aware? -- --