On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 05:05:16PM +0100, Jeroen Dekkers wrote:
> If you know a way of adding support for translators with the old tar
> format, that's true. I looked at it and I might have overlooked
> something, but I didn't see an easy way to add it.
We already discussed this here before. The
On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 11:50:56PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 06:36:59PM +0100, Jeroen Dekkers wrote:
> > IMHO those GNU utilities need to be rewritten.
>
> And before they are rewritten, we need to add the Hurd support to them so
> the people rewriting it in 2005 wil
On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 06:36:59PM +0100, Jeroen Dekkers wrote:
> IMHO those GNU utilities need to be rewritten.
And before they are rewritten, we need to add the Hurd support to them so
the people rewriting it in 2005 will know what we need.
Marcus
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Moritz Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If i would like to clone a GNU system via archiving the filesystem
> tree and extracting it later somewhere else, I would expect to also
> have /home archived although it's a different partition than the root
> filesystem, it's a passive translator sitt
On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 08:51:53AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> Kenneth Stailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Do cpio, tar and pax do this? Archivers are for making backups.
>
> No, but they certainly should. Making tar (and friends) preserve all
> Hurdish attributes is much more im
Kenneth Stailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Do cpio, tar and pax do this? Archivers are for making backups.
No, but they certainly should. Making tar (and friends) preserve all
Hurdish attributes is much more important (in my opinion) than
fretting about cp.
The question I have is general and I think it's related to this
thread.
In my opinion, the passive translators used for auto-mounting
filesystems are very different from the ones used for e.g. device
files. Sure, technically they are the same, but the policy when to
use the translator and when to
--- "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Neal H Walfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > > Oh, cp -R is different. I'm of two minds about what the Right Thing
> > > is for the cp -R case.
> > >
> > > The way to copy it, of course, is to fetch the translator entry and
> > > set
Neal H Walfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Sure, that is obvious. I suggested in my original email that this
> functionality should be added to cp:
>
> cp does not (yet) copy the Hurd attributes (e.g. the passive
> translator settings).
>
> You said that this should not be ma
> > > Oh, cp -R is different. I'm of two minds about what the Right Thing
> > > is for the cp -R case.
> > >
> > > The way to copy it, of course, is to fetch the translator entry and
> > > set it on the copy.
> >
> > I am not clear what you mean here.
>
> Open the node with O_NOTRANS.
> Fetch t
Neal H Walfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Oh, cp -R is different. I'm of two minds about what the Right Thing
> > is for the cp -R case.
> >
> > The way to copy it, of course, is to fetch the translator entry and
> > set it on the copy.
>
> I am not clear what you mean here.
Open the nod
> Oh, cp -R is different. I'm of two minds about what the Right Thing
> is for the cp -R case.
>
> The way to copy it, of course, is to fetch the translator entry and
> set it on the copy.
I am not clear what you mean here.
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