On Aug 17 11:37, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 05:04:32PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >Am I missing something or shouldn't tar be one of those applications > >which should recreate *exactly* what they got? In other words, shouldn't > >using binmode under all circumstances, regardless of mount mode, file > >type, or moon phase, be the way to go for tar? > > When tar is extracting or storing files it should always create exactly > what it got, yes. > > tar creates at least one file which is a "text" file when it is doing > incremental backups. I'm saying that this file should always have > LF line endings. Also, when reading a list of files via -T, it should > always read in text mode. > > So, to summarize, there are several places within tar which operate on > "text" files. I'm saying that they should ALWAYS be opened for read in > text mode and for write in binmode. When performing a normal creation > or extraction, the file should always be opened in binmode.
Yes, that's true. Sorry, I missed entirely the fact that file lists and exclude patterns can be read from text files. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc.