"Robert B. Carleton" <r...@rbcarleton.net> writes: > I think pax(1) may be mis-attributing errors to Ustar when using other > formats. I've been seeing this kind of error when using the pax format: > > "pax: Ustar cannot archive a socket /home/example/.cache/at-spi/bus_0" > > Otherwise pax seems to be working okay. The file(1) command reports the > archive as being pax format. I can then extract files from the archive > so I'm not concerned with its operation. > > I noticed it just before OpenBSD 7.6 was released, so I've observed the > behavior with both 7.5 and 7.6.
A correction. file(1) reports "POSIX tar archive" for both pax and ustar archives.
