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Date:      Mon, 2 Aug 2004 05:43:54 +0400
From:      Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
To:        Tim Kientzle <kientzle@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        "David G. Lawrence" <dg@dglawrence.com>
Subject:   Re: tar -l  versus  gtar -l
Message-ID:  <20040802014353.GA67938@nagual.pp.ru>
In-Reply-To: <410D9957.5020308@freebsd.org>
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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).

-- 
Andrey Chernov | http://ache.pp.ru/



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