From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 4 02:27:35 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D267916A4CE; Wed, 4 Aug 2004 02:27:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from TRANG.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4D3A43D1D; Wed, 4 Aug 2004 02:27:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by TRANG.nuxi.com (8.13.1/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i742RK9c014018; Tue, 3 Aug 2004 19:27:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id i742RGtv014017; Tue, 3 Aug 2004 19:27:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 19:27:16 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Andrey Chernov , Tim Kientzle , "David G. Lawrence" , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: <20040804022716.GD10301@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <40F963D8.6010201@freebsd.org> <200407291159.i6TBxKj01347@Mail.NOSPAM.DynDNS.dK> <4109BA1B.7090609@freebsd.org> <20040730080026.GA46093@nexus.dglawrence.com> <410A78B1.4030608@kientzle.com> <20040801221508.GF75481@nexus.dglawrence.com> <410D894D.7000209@freebsd.org> <20040802010910.GA63402@nexus.dglawrence.com> <410D9957.5020308@freebsd.org> <20040802014353.GA67938@nagual.pp.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040802014353.GA67938@nagual.pp.ru> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Subject: Re: tar -l versus gtar -l X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 02:27:35 -0000 On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 05:43:54AM +0400, Andrey Chernov wrote: > On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 06:31:03PM -0700, Tim Kientzle wrote: > > Would you be happier with this behavior? > > > > $ tar -cl /foo > > Error: -l is ambiguous > > If you want GNU tar -l, use --one-file-system instead. > > If you want POSIX tar -l, use --link-warn instead. > > POSIX have higher importance. We should ignore any GNUisms in favour of > POSIX overriding ones (at least to pass POSIX tests suite). But past FreeBSD (and BSD) practices should override POSIX. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)