From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 8 23:35:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E35E37B400; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 23:35:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C43143E7B; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 23:35:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.12.4/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g796NKQZ075425; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 15:53:21 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Subject: Re: Tar not following links now? From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Mark.Andrews@isc.org Cc: "Crist J. Clark" , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <200208090615.g796Fsgs098419@drugs.dv.isc.org> References: <200208090615.g796Fsgs098419@drugs.dv.isc.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 Date: 09 Aug 2002 15:53:20 +0930 Message-Id: <1028874201.3108.10.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.6 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 2002-08-09 at 15:45, Mark.Andrews@isc.org wrote: > > I don't understand why it changed though. > > Say you have: > > link1 -> file1 > file1 > > "tar c link1 file1" should preserve the symbolic link. That is arguably true but I don't see why it was changed :) ie adding a flag to get that behaviour would have been more sensible because without it the default behaviour has changed. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message