tar -l versus gtar -l
Tim Kientzle
kientzle at freebsd.org
Sun Aug 1 18:31:11 PDT 2004
David G. Lawrence wrote:
>
> Well...the SUSv2 specification for tar may not have been the best standard
> to adhere to. The change of behavior for the 'l' option on create is going
> to seriously bite a lot of people because it majorly affects what is
> archived.
I'm reluctant to contradict the one serious
attempt to standardize tar simply because gtar
ignored that effort.
I would rather just disable the -l option entirely;
that way, people would get an error message instead
of having the tar program behave unexpectedly.
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.
Tim
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