Paul, Mark, so what is the current consensus? Reject, merge as-is or merge with changes?
Carlo > On Mar 31, 2017, at 1:24 AM, Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> wrote: > > On 03/30/2017 09:01 AM, Mark wrote: >> I think it would be a good idea to add an option to tell tar whether to >> use POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE, POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED, or neither, since there may >> be cases where any of the three possibilities is best. > > Might make sense, yes. > >> Or maybe tar could >> read an environment variable to determine which to use? > > We're trying to get away from environment variables since they can be a > hassle for security reasons. Arguably an exception could be made in this > case, since it's just advice. >
