Date: 09 Aug 2002 15:53:20 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Mark.Andrews@isc.org Cc: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tar not following links now? Message-ID: <1028874201.3108.10.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200208090615.g796Fsgs098419@drugs.dv.isc.org> References: <200208090615.g796Fsgs098419@drugs.dv.isc.org>
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On Fri, 2002-08-09 at 15:45, Mark.Andrews@isc.org wrote: > > I don't understand why it changed though. > > Say you have: > > link1 -> file1 > file1 > > "tar c link1 file1" should preserve the symbolic link. That is arguably true but I don't see why it was changed :) ie adding a flag to get that behaviour would have been more sensible because without it the default behaviour has changed. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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