Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 11:47:47 +0400 From: Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru> To: Harti Brandt <harti@freebsd.org> Cc: Tim Kientzle <tim@kientzle.com> Subject: Re: NEW TAR Message-ID: <20040722074747.GB13943@nagual.pp.ru> In-Reply-To: <20040722092624.A9549@beagle.kn.op.dlr.de> References: <40F963D8.6010201@freebsd.org> <20040719060730.GA87697@nagual.pp.ru> <40FC9FC2.8050400@kientzle.com> <20040722071929.GA13591@nagual.pp.ru> <20040722092624.A9549@beagle.kn.op.dlr.de>
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On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 09:30:39AM +0200, Harti Brandt wrote: > (hole data at the end) you get a problem when extracting. The way I see > would be to put the hole data in-line. This is also not without problems. I too. Just store '\0' and then its count. This solution needs some "backslashing"-like detection to prevent archive file grow bigger on short sequences. But because nobody will understand that format, better stick with GNU one, regardless of its inefficiency. People using -S will have some slowdown, but they know what they do. -- Andrey Chernov | http://ache.pp.ru/
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