On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 8:34 AM, David Vasek <va...@fido.cz> wrote: > On Thu, 2 Jun 2011, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > >> GNU tools have become the industry standard, for a stack of reasons. > >> I've had similar issues with the "cp" command, and its lack of "cp >> -a". > > I've had similar issues with pax(1) command missing from systems based on > "GNU industry standard", and their lack of "pax -rw". > But why should one care about POSIX if we can choose to follow that great > "GNU industry standard" now. > > Regards, > David
I've got my Fedora 15 testing environment open in front of me for other reasons. "pax -rw" works fine. Where is that feature not available? Note also that POSIX compliance does not say you *can't* have a feature. Frankly, I'd love to see POSIX include these features for "cp" and "tar" for their next updated standards. It would make cross-platform work notably easier, especially for backup utilitiies like Amanda and rsnapshot (both of which I've done on UNIX and Linux systems).
