Re: tar -l versus gtar -l

From: David G. Lawrence <dg_at_dglawrence.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 00:02:38 -0700
> David G. Lawrence wrote:
> >
> >   Well...the SUSv2 specification for tar may not have been the best 
> >   standard
> >to adhere to. The change of behavior for the 'l' option on create is going
> >to seriously bite a lot of people because it majorly affects what is
> >archived.
> 
> I'm reluctant to contradict the one serious
> attempt to standardize tar simply because gtar
> ignored that effort.
> 
> I would rather just disable the -l option entirely;
> that way, people would get an error message instead
> of having the tar program behave unexpectedly.
> 
> 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.

   Yes. That way at least people won't accidently destroy a filesystem (like
I did) when they're trying to use tar to copy stuff.

-DG

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