HEADS UP: tar -l is now (intentionally) broken.

[Jason Andresen]

Michael Nottebrock wrote:

>On Tuesday 03 August 2004 09:28, Roman Neuhauser wrote:
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>>>In short, everyone wins on -o, everyone loses
>>>on -l.  That seems fair.  ;-)
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>>    I believe "loses" is the keyword here.
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>You don't loose anything if set POSIXLY_CORRECT
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I'm actually in favor of adding GNULY_CORRECT too, since you 
occasionally run into self extracting shellscripts and the like that 
assume GNU behavior (usually when installing Linux apps that come as a 
giant bash sharchive).  I don't think I've ever run into this specific 
problem, but there is a definate possability and getting those shell 
scripts to work is hard enough without having some way to override the 
correct (but incompatable) behaviour.

Just my $0.02