Joerg Schilling wrote > Justin Banks <just...@bakbone.com> wrote: > > > Granted, I've only been looking for a minute, but I figured there had to > > be some kind of guide I'm just missing. Hopefully this is the right list, > > or at least approxmiates it :) > > > > I have some customers for whom the tar(1) command is annoying because of > > the way it differs from the GNU tar command with respect to absolute > > pathnames. This would be simple to fix, having looked at the OS source > > What is your problem: what behavior do you dislike and what behavior do you > like to see?
When untarring a tarball that was created with absolute paths, the tar command should prepend a . to all pathnames unless specifically told not to in order to keep the command from potentially clobbering all system files. See http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=1223447 which has been around since '05 -justinb -- Justin Banks BakBone Software just...@bakbone.com _______________________________________________ opensolaris-code mailing list opensolaris-code@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code
