On Sat, Jan 25, 2014, at 17:46, Roberto E. Vargas Caballero wrote:
> Uhmm, it looks bad. If we want to be 100% POSIX complaint then we have to
> move
> mknod to ubase, and change the mknod system call of tar (and next
> archivers that
> could be implemented in sbase) to a system("mknod ...").The mknod utility isn't in POSIX either. POSIX permits tar implementations to ignore block and character device entries: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xcu/pax.html
