David Korn <d...@research.att.com> wrote:
> > Not to mention that it was star, Solaris added the lseek(f, pos, SEEK_HOLE)
> > for
> > to allow star to archive 100% accurate holey files.
> Since pax is implemented using the sfio library for stdio it also
> handles files with holes. In fact the AST cp command will copy preserve
> holes in files.
> >
> > Star is developed on SunOS since February 1985 and star is well integrated
> > to
> > Solaris. Star includes a built in find(1), a configurable diff option, a
> > configurable error control and many other nice features.
> I am not criticizing star, I am just trying to correct the record.
> I suspect that a version of star would be written as a shell script
> using pax.
>From the last view I had on AST pax, most of the features from star are
>missing
in AST pax, so this seems to be impossible for now.
Jörg
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