On 9 August 2010 14:00, Alexander Best <arun...@freebsd.org> wrote: > hi there, > > chflags(1) mentions that a few utilities including pax(1) aren't chflags > aware yet. is there a list of all those utilties available somewhere? > also: i don't quite understand why this is in the BUGS section of chflags(1) > and not in the pax(1) manual itself [1]. this doesn't seem very logical, > since the bug doesn't exist in chflags, but in pax not supporting chflags. > so if someone decides to use pax and wants to know if there are any problem > with it, there's no way for the average user to stumble upon the fact that > chflags isn't supported in pax. > > in fact the pax(1) manual states that `pax -p e` will "preserve everything". > this is plain wrong! > > cheers. > alex > > [1] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=docs/135516 >
AFIK, pax is a POSIX thing, and as such working correctly or sanely would violate its posix nature. (POSIX is an anagram of "Pox? Si!") Is cpio chflags-aware? -- -- _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
