Hi Zachary, > (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2015-08/msg00012.html) I > submitted a patch to make PAX archives binary identical on each run by > default (rather than embedding the PID as the standard requests) > unless POSIXLY_CORRECT is set.
Apparently I overlooked that. My sincere apologies. > Will you please indicate that you'll accept this patch? Not in its current state. In particular, calling getenv before generating each header is an overkill. Another point is that the patch for the docs doesn't mention POSIXLY_CORRECT and its effect. But overall, I like the idea. Regards, Sergey
