On Tue, February 10, 2009 11:40, Fredrich Maney wrote: > On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Tim Bray <tim.b...@sun.com> wrote: >>> On the other side, GNU tar is unreliable. >> >> It is really unhelpful to Solaris when its advocates make inflammatory >> and >> incorrect statements like this. We agree that you have reported a bug. >> There is no bug-free software in the world. The immensely huge numbers >> of >> people who, like me, have been using GNU tools such as tar for many >> years >> without any problems hear things like this and are apt to conclude >> "Solaris >> people are out of touch with reality". -T > > This isn't really my fight, but .... > > Inflammatory, maybe. Incorrect, I don't think so. Joerg has made a > fairly convincing, and consistent, point of showing where the > reliability problems with GNU tar lie - in bugs that were filed 16 > years ago. You even acknowledged them in your response. Out of context > editing of his posts do not help your argument.
I haven't looked at the bug he cites. What I do know is that this discussion is the first time I've heard of it, and I've been using various tar implementations pretty frequently since, oh, let's say 1986 (previously I played on Unix a bit, but never worked on it). So his apocalyptic claims ring strangely hollow. I'm sure the bug is real, and should be fixed; but I can't find myself considering a tool "broken" because there's a 16-year-old bug that I've never encountered or even heard of previously. > Also, I find it odd that you are posting from a sun.com email address > while making statements like "Solaris people are out of touch", > clearly putting "Solaris people" in the "Them" category in an Us vs. > Them comparision. As a Sun employee, I would think that you should be > a "Solaris person". It's a big company. I worked for them from 2005 to 2008. The bit that I worked in, Solaris wasn't around, the project was Linux based. Also written in C++, not Java; and running on AMD processors :-). Kinda the un-Sun part of Sun (I was on the streaming video server, part of Kealia that they acquired in 2004). (Also where the Thumper came from.) -- David Dyer-Bennet, d...@dd-b.net; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
