Hi Pavel, > .. && do we really need to parse all options? Wouldn't it be better to > artificially bound the -T FILE parsing power? I mean, this is starting to > have Turing machine power :)
Well, basically, it provides a convenient way to store tar command lines into a kind of "configuration files": e.g., supposing that foo.cmd contains all the necessary options and arguments to do a particular task, just running `tar -T foo.cmd' should be enough to do it. A bit unexpected, perhaps, but in general I think it is a useful feature. > Trying again, wait .. I can observe that the lazy opt_parsing is broken > even for the -C option: Hmm... My tries give quite different results: ../src/tar -cf test.tar -T FILE ../src/tar: configure: Cannot stat: No such file or directory ../src/tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors which is kind of what I expected... Are you sure you tried it with the latest tar from git head? Regards, Sergey