hi, While putting together the test for the existence of tar for the LSB FHS test suite. I came across the following inconsistency between spec and many implementations. I've raised this with the UNIX standard group and thought I'd flag it here to. regards Andrew
--- Forwarded mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Josey) Subject: bug in tar specification or implementations? The tar man page says: v(Verbose.) Write to standard error the name of each file processed, preceded by a string indicating the operation being performed.... Yet if I do the following: touch tfile tar cvf tfile.tar tfile 2>/dev/null I see different behaviour on different systems: HP-UX does the right thing according to the specs and I get no output. UnixWare 2.1.2, Solaris 2.6, Solaris 2.7, AIX 4.3.1 and GNU tar output to stdout rather than stderr. I know that its Legacy - but thought I'd flag this inconsistency regards Andrew ----- Andrew Josey The Open Group Base WG Chair Apex Plaza,Forbury Road, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reading,Berks.RG1 1AX,England Tel: +44 118 9508311 ext 2250 Fax: +44 118 9500110 ---End of forwarded mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Josey)
