On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 10:39:21AM -0500, random...@fastmail.us wrote:
> 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
I'll look into doing that for our tar implementation and move
mknod(1) from sbase to ubase.
In other words, if we have makedev I can just go ahead and assume
that we can use character and block devices, otherwise ignore them.
cheers,
sin
