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
Received on Tue Jan 28 2014 - 16:39:21 CET