Bob Friesenhahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> > where it decided to remove the GNU tar I had installed there. Star
> > does not support traditional tar command line syntax so it can't be
> > used with existing scripts. Performance testing showed that it was no
> > more efficient than the 'gtar' which comes with Solaris. It seems
>
> There is something I should clarify in the above. Star is a stickler
> for POSIX command line syntax so syntax like 'tar -cvf foo.tar' or
> 'tar cvf foo.tar' does not work, but 'tar -c -v -f foo.tar' does work.
Not true:
GNU tar has many deviations from the historical tar command line syntax that
is describes in the SUSv2 standard. Star, when called "tar", is 100% compatible
to SUSv2. Star (called star) still is very close to SUSv2 but it disallows all
constructs that are a security risk.
Many people believe that star is not compliant because they compare to the
non compliant GNU tar.
Jörg
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