Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 12:46:48 +0200 From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libarchive Makefile archive_write_set_format_pax.c archive_write_set_format_ustar.c src/lib/libarchive/test Makefile test_tar_filenames.c Message-ID: <86ejmnz10n.fsf@dwp.des.no> In-Reply-To: <200704140820.l3E8KVqP092404@repoman.freebsd.org> (Tim Kientzle's message of "Sat, 14 Apr 2007 08:20:31 %2B0000 (UTC)") References: <200704140820.l3E8KVqP092404@repoman.freebsd.org>
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Tim Kientzle <kientzle@FreeBSD.org> writes: > Log: > Conventionally, tar archives have always included a trailing '/' > for directories. bsdtar used to add this, but that recently got > lost somehow. So now I'm adding it back in libarchive. Is that really a good idea? Shouldn't this just be fixed in bsdtar's display code? > The only odd part of doing this in libarchive: Adding a directory to > a tar archive and then reading it back again can yield a different name. I can imagine how this might trip up other (hypothetical) libarchive consumers... DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no
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