"Garrett D'Amore" <garrett at damore.org> wrote:
> If the extensions have escaped, then it is probably too late to do
> anything about it, and we just need to figure out a way to improve
> cooperation in the future.
>
> If they have _not_ escaped into Solaris 10, then can I suggest that
> Joerg, who's obviously an expert in these details, and who seems to care
> passionately about it, figure out how to reimplement the features to be
> more compliant with POSIX 2001.1? He can send diffs to the tar folks,
> and I _suspect_ that as long as code is delivered without animosity,
> that they will be happy to integrate the changes.
Well, in order to be able to suggest a different implementation, we would need
a documentation of the implementation in question. Such a documentation is not
available.
> In any case, fighting is not going to solve the problem.... we need to
> look constructively.
This is why I did propose to have a collaborate discussion.
J?rg
--
EMail:joerg at schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) J?rg Schilling D-13353 Berlin
js at cs.tu-berlin.de (uni)
schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog:
http://schily.blogspot.com/
URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily
