Shawn Walker writes: > > There may well be other reasons to avoid such a change for Solaris, > > including star's use of non-POSIX command line options. See: > > > > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/arc/caselog/1991/031/ > > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/arc/caselog/1999/645/ > > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/arc/caselog/2003/035/ > > It would be possible to implement a Sun tar command-line mode would it not? > > Something like, if star is invoked as /usr/bin/tar, it would operate > exactly like Sun tar used to? > > Would that allow its replacement?
Possibly so, though that wasn't actually Mr. Schilling's proposal. However, driving in the direction of those strange and incompatible "-feature" options would probably require a bit more discussion. Given all the difficult and protracted discussion represented by those three ARC cases, I'd certainly hope that most people would not want to do this, but I guess the future is always somewhat unpredictable. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 1 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677 _______________________________________________ opensolaris-code mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code
