[dev] [sbase] Defining scope of sbase and ubase

2024-03-07 Thread Roberto E. Vargas Caballero
Hi, While reviewing several patches for sbase adding new tools some discussion happened and I thought it was better to move the discussion here. The patches raised a concern about what should be the scope of sbase. The idea of sbase was to provide a minimal portable POSIX base, while having

Re: [dev] [st] externalpipe on OpenBSD

2024-03-07 Thread Страхиња Радић
Hi, can anyone take a look at this and approve or comment if there is anything to add to or change about the patch? https://lists.suckless.org/wiki/2402/4748.html

[dev] [sbase] tar compresses slowly

2024-03-07 Thread Andrea Calligaris
I noticed that 'tar' is very slow to compress if compared to 'GNU tar', especially when there are multiple small files. 26 GB of OS's ISO images: GNU tar: 195s sbase tar: 250s (128% more) 3.6 GB of images: GNU tar: 3s sbase tar: 27s (900% more) (!)