"David G. Lawrence" <dg_at_dglawrence.com> writes: >> # kientzle_at_freebsd.org / 2004-08-02 22:55:45 -0700: >> > Since POSIX and GNU violently disagree about the >> > meaning of "tar -l", and there seem to be strong >> > adherents to both interpretations, I'm preparing to >> > commit a patch that breaks "tar -l" for everyone: >> >> All I can see is three posts in current_at_, that's >> not much of a discussion (or voting). >> >> I for one, would prefer POSIX compliance. :) > > Well, '-l' has meant "local filesystem only" in FreeBSD since the 1.0 > release (i.e. since the beginning - more than 10 years now). FreeBSD isn't > a POSIX OS - it's a BSD OS and we have many differences in our user > environment that differ from POSIX. That's partly what makes us BSD rather > than System V, Solaris, or Linux. Many of our users prefer the way that ps(1) > works in BSD, for example...as well as many other non-POSIXisms in other > utilities. Talking of Solaris, it still has a nonconforming /bin/sh, and such is a major annoyance in heteogenous networks. Same applies to FreeBSD, please lean towards standards wherever possible. As this BSD tar stuff is a -CURRENT issue, it is allowed to break. -- Matthias Andree Encrypted mail welcome: my GnuPG key ID is 0x052E7D95 (PGP/MIME preferred)Received on Tue Aug 03 2004 - 07:09:22 UTC
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