>> It appears to be specifying pax's behaviour, not tar's. [...]
> POSIX used to specify tar, long ago, but there were (as I understand
> it) too many incompat variants, so it was dropped.
Not entirely surprising.
> You should have been expecting that as the link you were given ended
> in pax.ht
Date:Sat, 28 Oct 2023 23:32:56 -0400 (EDT)
From:Mouse
Message-ID: <202310290332.xaa23...@stone.rodents-montreal.org>
| It appears to be specifying pax's behaviour, not tar's. Is tar
| specified to use the same format by reference, or is tar not specified
| but
>> So there _is_ a POSIX spec for tarchives? [...]
> https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/pax.html#tag_20_92_13_06
I got that fetched and have been going through it.
It appears to be specifying pax's behaviour, not tar's. Is tar
specified to use the same format by referenc
>> So there _is_ a POSIX spec for tarchives? [...]
> https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/pax.html#tag_20_92_13_06
I'll have to scare up a work machine to fetch that from, since
apparently pubs.opengroup.org is not interested in serving content over
HTTP. But that should be
On Sunday, October 29, 2023 2:29:47 AM CET Mouse wrote:
> > I don't think any one else cares about pre-ustar. Pretty much any
> > reader and writer around uses at least ustar and generally wants to
> > have extended POSIX as well when caring about large files.
>
> So there _is_ a POSIX spec for t
> Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2023 21:29:47 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Mouse
>
> So there _is_ a POSIX spec for tarchives? Is the spec available, or is
> this yet another pay-to-play "standard"? I've gone looking for specs
> for tar before, but each time I have, I've been unable to find anything
> that isn't be
> I don't think any one else cares about pre-ustar. Pretty much any
> reader and writer around uses at least ustar and generally wants to
> have extended POSIX as well when caring about large files.
So there _is_ a POSIX spec for tarchives? Is the spec available, or is
this yet another pay-to-pl
>> (It doesn't help that I haven't managed to find a clear spec for tar
>> format; the closest I've found so far is a description of what pax,
>> in its (supposedly-)tar-compatible mode, is supposed to read/write.)
> All of this can be found in:
> src/external/bsd/libarchive/dist/libarchive/archive
On Sunday, October 29, 2023 12:40:06 AM CEST RVP wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Oct 2023, Mouse wrote:
> > I'm having trouble seeing what's responsible, and in particular am
> > wondering whether this is my bug or /bin/tar's bug or what. (It
> > doesn't help that I haven't managed to find a clear spec for ta
On Sat, 28 Oct 2023, Mouse wrote:
I'm having trouble seeing what's responsible, and in particular am
wondering whether this is my bug or /bin/tar's bug or what. (It
doesn't help that I haven't managed to find a clear spec for tar
format; the closest I've found so far is a description of what pa
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