Paul Eggert <[email protected]> wrote: > Joerg Schilling wrote: > > Gtar does not read the files in this case: > > Hmm, it read the files for the case that I tried. Perhaps it reads > sometimes and not others. Either way, it appears that I was wrong and > this is not an entirely theoretical discussion; also, from other's > comments it appears that some practical uses run faster due to gtar's > optimizations, which sounds like a good thing.
The only reason I am aware of where it reads filesm is when it scans for sparse files. What you call "gtar's optimizations" is what I would call unexpected side effects. Star shows that there is no need to have these side effects. Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily
