bad news for bsdtar..

[Julian Elischer]

not that this was meant to be sent everywhere..
but...


On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Oliver Lehmann wrote:

> Julian Elischer wrote:
> 
> > %time tar cf /dev/null 849
>                             ^
> Asterisk for 4.8-tar missing?
> 
cut-n-paste-o

# time ~/tar cf /dev/null 849*
5.309u 73.584s 21:15.44 6.1%    329+5150k 786697+0io 0pf+0w
# time tar cf /dev/null 849*
5.159u 17.724s 4:08.97 9.1%     364+5863k 66144+0io 1pf+0w
# time ~/bsdtar cf /dev/null 849*
16.423u 68.141s 31:40.82 4.4%   402+1639k 784651+0io 0pf+0w

if it had been just 849 it would have taken 0 time.
(no such directory)