Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 19:27:16 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru>, Tim Kientzle <kientzle@FreeBSD.ORG>, "David G. Lawrence" <dg@dglawrence.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tar -l versus gtar -l Message-ID: <20040804022716.GD10301@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20040802014353.GA67938@nagual.pp.ru> References: <40F963D8.6010201@freebsd.org> <200407291159.i6TBxKj01347@Mail.NOSPAM.DynDNS.dK> <4109BA1B.7090609@freebsd.org> <20040730080026.GA46093@nexus.dglawrence.com> <410A78B1.4030608@kientzle.com> <20040801221508.GF75481@nexus.dglawrence.com> <410D894D.7000209@freebsd.org> <20040802010910.GA63402@nexus.dglawrence.com> <410D9957.5020308@freebsd.org> <20040802014353.GA67938@nagual.pp.ru>
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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. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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