Re: tar -l versus gtar -l

From: Andrey Chernov <ache_at_nagual.pp.ru>
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 05:43:54 +0400
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).

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Andrey Chernov | http://ache.pp.ru/
Received on Sun Aug 01 2004 - 23:44:02 UTC

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