Re: tar -l versus gtar -l

From: David O'Brien <obrien_at_FreeBSD.ORG>
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 19:27:16 -0700
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.
 
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-- David  (obrien_at_FreeBSD.org)
Received on Wed Aug 04 2004 - 00:27:35 UTC

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