tar -l versus gtar -l

Matthias Andree ma at dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de
Wed Aug 4 04:32:25 PDT 2004


"David O'Brien" <obrien at FreeBSD.ORG> writes:

>> 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.

Guys, please remember this is -CURRENT, not -STABLE.

Any standards conformance issues we're aware of and that are easily
fixed should be ironed out BEFORE going -STABLE or we'll be stuck with
them for another five years.

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Matthias Andree

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